Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] While were on hard drives...
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Wed Jul 20 21:13:53 2005
References: <008301c58da1$743ccd40$24a0fea9@MacPhisto> <42DF1266.7060908@planet.nl>
 
Xrays that are sufficiently powerful can damage the electronics that are 
inside a hard drive. When it's in a computer the metal case of the computer 
usually protects it. If you have an external HD, make sure it's in a metal 
case and not a plastic case.

I've never actually seen this happen, but I worked at NASA long enough to 
know all of the horror stories about how electronics fail when hit with this 
or that sort of radiation.
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