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From: smithc@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Christopher Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac Hard Drives & X-Rays
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Date: 14 Mar 91 02:59:34 GMT
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I'm not sure where else to put this question, but since I've got your
attention, here goes...

I have a portable hard drive (a LaCie Cirrus 40 Quantum) that I use
with my Mac.  I'm flying back to Washington, D.C. in a week or so, and
I need to take the hard drive with me.  Now here's my query:  if I
take the hard drive with me on the plane as carry-on and thus through
the security x-rays, will the x-ray radiation damage the data stored
on the hard drive?

Please respond via email.  Thanks in advance!


Christopher Smith
St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
Internet:  smithc@stolaf.edu