So I have a job that will be getting me out of the US. For most things I’m not to worried, except for my computer. What would be the best way to securely move it and also not potentially worry about damaging it?
It’ll be a given that I have an encrypted off-site (cloud) back up, but I’m torn about removing the drives to hand carry and then shipping the chassis. My only worry about that would be customs stopping me because of carrying hard drives… more specifically 3x M.2, which I’m not as worried about and 4x 2.5” SSDs
Thoughts?
Image the drives to cloud storage and ship all of the hardware with insurance (wipe the drives before shipping if you’re worried about data security).
SSDs are incredibly resilient to shock and would be the least likely component to fail from rough shipping. Insurance covers you on everything else.
Do you remember a video some tech guy/s did maybe 15 - 20 yrs ago? He raided somewhere between 10 and 20 ssds (they were new at the time) and booted up windows while holding the ssd cables and jumping on a mini trampoline? The drives were clacking together like one of them clapper hand toys/noise makers. Yeah drives should be fine, I’d break the pc down to parts in boxes if I was moving my pc anywhere far or not with me holding the box, video cards and heat syncs are super heavy these days, this isn’t (I hope) a trident card
I think the manufacturers data sheet says the NAND chips and associated circuitry can handle 75Gs. You’re not going to damage them without trying really hard.