Laptop Hard Disk - How Safe Out of Laptop?

[K]

I need to transport my laptop hard disk out of the laptop.

If I bubble wrap it is it OK to carry it in a bag on my shoulder?

I assume so as it's a laptop drive so it's designed for above average
movement, but does the laptop have any 'damping' built in that I won't have
with bubble wrap?

 

[Ken Maltby]

I need to transport my laptop hard disk out of the laptop.

If I bubble wrap it is it OK to carry it in a bag on my shoulder?

I assume so as it's a laptop drive so it's designed for above average
movement, but does the laptop have any 'damping' built in that I won't
have with bubble wrap?

From the last 2.5 drive I looked at:
Shock Tolerance 225 g @ 2 ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance 1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 5 g @ 5-500 Hz
(non-operating)


(Not sure the above will post right.)

Luck;
Ken

 

[Rod Speed]

I need to transport my laptop hard disk out of the laptop.

If I bubble wrap it is it OK to carry it in a bag on my shoulder?

Its not ideal. Some drives to park the heads and those are safer.

I assume so as it's a laptop drive so it's designed for above average movement,
Yes.

but does the laptop have any 'damping' built in that I won't have with bubble wrap?

Not damping so much as latching the heads with some drives.

 

[Ken Maltby]

From the last 2.5 drive I looked at:
Shock Tolerance 225 g @ 2 ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms
(non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance 1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 5 g @ 5-500 Hz
(non-operating)


(Not sure the above will post right.)

(Looks like it came out all right.) So, even though I imagine the
bottom of a ladies shoulder bag to be a vary hazardous place; a
2.5" NB drive should be able to withstand any jarring it would be
likely to encounter (with or without bubble wrap).

Luck;
Ken

 

[kony]

I need to transport my laptop hard disk out of the laptop.

Put it in an anti-static bag.

If I bubble wrap it is it OK to carry it in a bag on my shoulder?
Yes.


I assume so as it's a laptop drive so it's designed for above average
movement, but does the laptop have any 'damping' built in that I won't have
with bubble wrap?

They can, but many don't. Just don't go banging it around,
treat it like the delicate thing it is. Personally I'd put
that bagged and bubble wrapped drive into a cardboard box
too.

Now why do you need to be carrying around a hard drive?
Lots of MP3 and campus raids? If it's just a matter of
transporting data then consider DVDs or flash memory based
card or thumbdrive.

 

[Ken Maltby]

Put it in an anti-static bag.



They can, but many don't. Just don't go banging it around,
treat it like the delicate thing it is. Personally I'd put
that bagged and bubble wrapped drive into a cardboard box
too.

Now why do you need to be carrying around a hard drive?
Lots of MP3 and campus raids? If it's just a matter of
transporting data then consider DVDs or flash memory based
card or thumbdrive.

It would take something like deliberately throwing onto a
garnet floor to subject the drive to 900g of deceleration.

A loop the loop rollercoaster won't produce more than 6g.
( The noted safety conscious Russian government restricts any
amusement ride to 5g or less.)

A jet fighter plane can maybe do 11g in extreme maneuvers,
not that the pilot would know as they start passing out about
7g.

The NB drives are built to take a lot more than you seem to
realize. Even powered up, a short fall would be unlikely to do
any damage. (Try that with a regular PC drive and it's toast.)

As long as it's powered down you could put in your pocket,
and unless you play hockey the drive will be fine.

Luck;
Ken

 

[kony]

It would take something like deliberately throwing onto a
garnet floor to subject the drive to 900g of deceleration.

Ok, but many also state something like "don't press on the
top" and the circuit board could also be damaged.
Deceleration isn't quite the same as physical damage in
general. They're designed to withstand shocks while in an
installed device, mounted by their frames, not shocks
against any random part of the drive