Harddisk and Airport Xray Machines

#1

I hope you guys can enlighten me with this matter. I'm headed for Chicago this coming May and I want to take my mp3s, comics, images and of course, my porn, with me. If I burn them onto a CD, it would take me so many CDs and I'm afraid of losing one of them, or damaging it. I was told that Airport Xray Machines can wipe out my entire HD. Of course I don't want that to happen.

But some say it's not true. I'm confused.

What do you guys say? True or false? Did anyone of you ever have the same situation like this one? What happened? Shed some light on me guys.

Thanks.

#2

Wow man, that's the first I've heard of an xray wiping out an HDD..! But I seem to recall a myth about how you could fuck up your debit card stripe it you exposed it to a magnet, so knowing that HDD's have magnets in them, how your HDD will react I have no idea....

But, however people are able to carry laptops on board, and whatever method of scanning uses for them is available, you should be able to do with your drives...

But that's speculation, shit man I literally don't have a clue....

#3

I travel with a laptop all of the time, and have never had a problem. They only mae me take my laptop out of the bag and place it on the belt. But if you had external HDD you should be able to leave it in the bag and pass it on through. I don't think you would have any problems.

#4

My stuff gets Xrayed all the time. Credit cards, hard drives, flash drives. Never had a problem.

The only reliable way I've seen to damage data on a hard disk is to put one of those "rare earth" (very strong magnets) directly on it and move it around.

You'll be fine.

#5

I have never heard of x-ray machine damaging hard drives. Keep your hard drives away from strong magnetic fields. i travel with my lap top and ipod and have never had problems.

#6

Thanks for the responds guys. I really appreciate it. /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />

#7

Yea I always travel with my laptop also and I never have a problem. I always pass it through the x-ray machine and it's fine. I assume it'll be the same with an external hard drive