28 May
2007
28 May
'07
6:03 p.m.
On 28 May 2007 at 7:05, Tim Shoppa wrote:
I would then be worried about static electricity build-up on the bags
(rememebrm the field inside a hollow _conductor_ is zero, but it has to
be a conductor). You don't want to zap a chip on the hard drive's logic
board, or worse still damage the head or media.
Maype put them inside an antistatic bag, then inside the 'dry bag'.
-tony
Temperature/humidity changes that can cause
condensation to form
are not the best thing either. This may be much less of a problem
with smaller modern drives with less thermal mass.
I suspect that much of this problem could be alleviated during
storage by hermetically sealing the drives in plastic bags (can you