Would a Airport X ray machine hurt a Hard Drive??

[perdactyre]

Would a new hard drive in an anti shock bag be damaged if it where takin through a airport Xray machine. What about laptops. the thing is, my friend bought a new hard drive and it somehow got damaged. I was just curious if it was his fault. Has any one had this problem. :cool)

[jman01pa]

I cant see how. Likely got damaged in transport. You said it was in an anti-shock bag? You mean anti-static bag? What kind of physical protection did the drive have?

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[Maxwell T]

My Dell laptop has been through airport x-rays many times, somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 to 40 times in the past two years. hasn't caused a moments problem for me.

[krusty the klown]

One thing that springs to mind is the pressure on the aircraft - was the disk put into the cargo hold (which is unpressurised and unheated) or was it with him/her in the cabin??

The pressure difference is large - a m8 put a bottle of vodka in his luggage and it exploded, covering his clothes in vodka and shards of glass. Similarly, aerosols are not too clever in unpressurised cargo holds <IMG SRC="http://smilecwm.tripod.com/net4/splat.gif" border=0>

[Jeff7]

X-rays are harmless to computers. They basically are light waves; magnetism is the primary form of electromagnetic radiation that computers have to fear.

[Snuffy!]

Yeah, I agree with everyone else, it prolly got buffeted around, and got stuffed up, simple as that.

[FrozenLiquidity]

As Jeff said, X-rays are harmless to computer equiptment, BEWARE THOUGH! Do not put any of your equiptment through the metal detector, as it does have a magnetic field and can possibly corrupt data on floppy disks, hard drives, and other means of magnetic storage.

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[otheos]

Krusty,

newer airplanes (737/757/747/767/777 from the Boeing and all Airbus) have their cargo space under the same conditions as the cabin. Personaly I know of NO aircraft (civil not smaller) in the past 30 years that has different pressure/temperature in the cabin and in the cargo space. It's a design thing. You'd rather have one shell (the outer) under positive pressure that two (outer + cargo).