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I will be traveling soon, and would like to carry a couple bare laptop hard drives that I use with the Ultra Bay 2nd HDD adapter. Is it ok to just throw it in a padded pocket or is there a more detailed ritual to carrying bare drives?

Other than carrying them in the 2nd HDD adapter in the case? If you are carrying the absolute *bare* drives, with exposed connectors, then you should keep them well away from magnets or static of any kind; you could put them in an anti-static bag if you want.

I have been carrying around other HDDs in the 2nd HDD adapter and put it into the black ultrabay device case for awhile now; haven't had any problems. The only other thing to watch out for is to make sure that the ventilation hole, it should have a sticker that say "Do not block," doesn't get a crumb of something lodged in it by accident or have anything else obstruct the airflow.

Put a "bare" drive in an anti-static bag and wrap the bag with bubble wrap.

christopher_wolf wrote:I have been carrying around other HDDs in the 2nd HDD adapter and put it into the black ultrabay device case for awhile now; haven't had any problems.

That's been working very well for me as well!

Cheers,

Bill

I've done the drive in the adapter + case thing a lot, but when I just have the drive, I usually use one of the old cases that has some sort of hard plate in it and a piece of fitted foam with a HDD cut-out in the middle. You see them come up for aution on ebay occassionally. They have a zipper instead of a velco flap.