[CentOS] Protection for removable hard drive

Thu Jan 24 22:01:10 UTC 2008
Brian Mathis <brian.mathis at gmail.com>

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.