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04-30-2006, 04:52 PM
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| Colorful   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: April Showers bring May flowers all in the Golden Afternoon
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 |  External Hard Drives and Travel Can external hard drives be caried on/checked as luggage for travel on an airplane. Or is it better just to ship it out where you need it ahead of time?
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04-30-2006, 10:01 PM
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| Ian The Fox  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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| Re: External Hard Drives and Travel I would not do that. I'm not sure what sort of checks they do on the airplane, but I definitely wouldn't get it checked as luggage (have you seen the brutal way that they treat luggage?) and I would be extremely weary about having an external hard drive go through a checkpoint. If anything, let it go on the belt where they x-ray carryons because taking it through the metal detectors WILL wipe a hard drive.
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05-01-2006, 08:15 AM
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| is still a dreamer MiceChat Moderator  | Re: External Hard Drives and Travel How would taking it through the check-in belt, like with a laptop, be any worse for it? Is it because the laptop's hard drive is better protected? (Serious question). I def. wouldn't check it, not because of the way luggage is treated but because of thw more powerful XRays they use back there. That's why they tell you not to put your film in your checked bags.
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05-01-2006, 08:26 AM
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| Colorful Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: April Showers bring May flowers all in the Golden Afternoon
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|  Re: External Hard Drives and Travel Thanks. Y'all! 
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05-03-2006, 11:39 AM
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External HS should be safe in those though... just not the checked x-ray | |
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