[CentOS] Protection for removable hard drive
Ray Leventhal
centos at swhi.net
Fri Jan 25 16:22:10 UTC 2008
Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 4:54 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote:
>
>> My apologies if this is a bit off topic...
>>
>> I am going to start doing backups to removable hard drives and I will
>> need to send these hard drives to an off-site storage facility. I am
>> looking for some way to protect the drives after I pull them out of the
>> system. I was hoping to find some kind of clamshell enclosure similar
>> to what is used with external hard drives, but so far I haven't found
>> anything. Do you guys know of anything like this? How do you protect
>> your removable drives when they are not in the computer?
>>
>> --
>> Bowie
>>
>
> When you buy drives at retail, they come packed in about 3 inches of
> foam on all sides around. If you have any of those boxes laying
> around with the foam, use that. Also make sure to put them in
> anti-static bags.
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Brian,
You may want to check these folks out:
http://inflatablepackaging.com/encap.php
HTH,
-Ray
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