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>From: Russell McMahon [mailto:apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ]
>
>Seagate's promo material suggests (and the supplier pointed
>out) that disk damage in shipping dropped by 70% with the
>introduction of the Seashell. Put another way, that's an
>improvement of less than 2.5 times over shipping a bare drive.
>Better than no protection at all, but if someone couriered me
>a drive in a skinny cardboard box with no protection at all I
>would be extremely dissatisfied. Less than 2.5 times better is
>hardly worth having.

I'm not sure why you say that, 2.5 times better is a excellent improvement
compared to the investment in a bit of vacuum formed plastic that costs a
few cents to make.  As I know I would be very happy with the return on
investment if it were my product.

Personaly, I think that although the supplier was obviously cutting corners,
that you are being over cautious.  Modern drives are far more robust than
they were years ago when you had to be paranoid about handling them.  The
Samsung drives have a non-operational shock rating of 350G (and a relatively
large 63G operating shock).  Hard drives cannot be relied on to store
critical data without backups anyway.

Regards

Mike




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