Computers and X-Rays

asintel · 10-07-2004, 12:51 AM

I'm planning on bringing my minitower with me when I travel to New York since I'll be there for a long while. I figure placing it in my luggage will result in some kind of dame from being tossed around under the belly of the plane. Shipping would cost too much. So I want to bring it in a carry on bag.

What I was wondeing was: will the x-ray machine at the security check-in adversely affect the computer in any kind of way? Should I take out the hard drive and ship it to myself?

Any advice would be mucho mucho appreciated.

Lorand · 10-07-2004, 01:31 AM

Once I took my computer to a government building and it was put into such an x-ray machine (despite my disagreement, but had no choice). Fortunately nothing happened to it.

**Praetor** · 10-07-2004, 05:12 AM

If you have the option of manually shipping it, then manually ship it. Shock damage is enough of a deterrent for me.

10-07-2004, 12:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
asintel New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1	Computers and X-Rays I'm planning on bringing my minitower with me when I travel to New York since I'll be there for a long while. I figure placing it in my luggage will result in some kind of dame from being tossed around under the belly of the plane. Shipping would cost too much. So I want to bring it in a carry on bag. What I was wondeing was: will the x-ray machine at the security check-in adversely affect the computer in any kind of way? Should I take out the hard drive and ship it to myself? Any advice would be mucho mucho appreciated.

10-07-2004, 05:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
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10-07-2004, 01:31 AM	#2 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 42 Posts: 3,042	Once I took my computer to a government building and it was put into such an x-ray machine (despite my disagreement, but had no choice). Fortunately nothing happened to it.