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X-Rays and hard drives
Any problems at airports with hard drives going through the x-ray? Any other potential things to look out for while transporting hard drives?
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They should be fine on the carry-on baggage. The checked bagged scanners kill film but I haven’t heard of them doing the same to hard drives. Still I’d carryon.
Noah
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Here is a followup. I am shooting a documentary overseas. I plan on dumping p2 cards with my powerbook with hard drives attached (I need at least 1 TB which will be redundant so I need a total of 2TB). I want to have one usb and one firewire drive at a time, becuase I have had problems connecting multiple firewire drives at once. Would you all buy one usb enclosure and one firewire enclosure, and swap out drives, or would you recommend a big RAID solution? My understanding is if you remove one of the raided drive it screws everything up. I think I will be safer with smaller drives becuase if one goes bad you loose more information than if you have a big 500GB crash and loose the whole project.
Any ideas on specific solutions from the IT savvy would be greatly apprciated.
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X-rays don’t hurt hard drive data. But there is some concern that the new MRI baggage checking machines might. They use
magnetic resonance to peek into your baggage. Some people think it’s enough magnetism to screw with your magnetic hard drive.
I travel overseas a lot and always carry my 2 drive hard drive array on board in my laptop case. I don’t know for sure that it’s
necessary, but I don’t want it stolen or corrupted.
Ed
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