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Our hard drives for mainframes used to come with glass tube force exceeded indicators and ,'tipped in transit' markers. Five cent gizmos which meant you could refuse to accept or RMA.


I was very upset to find a spinning disk hard drive that I bought off a respectable forum was shipped in a padded envelope. Not even the bubble kind, but this kind: https://www.uline.com/BL_1542/Uline-Kraft-Self-Seal-Padded-M...

It still worked fine.


You can buy these to put on your shipments. Provides a g-force indicator if the shipment has been dropped.

https://www.labelmaster.com/shop/shipping/damage-indicators/...


Kinda ironic considering how much force a HDD at rest can sustain...let alone tipping.


Hard disks these days are much tougher than the ones used for old school mainframes, or for that matter just old school hard disks. Back in the day there was a command to park the drive heads so they wouldn’t bounce around during transit.




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