On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Greg Huson wrote:
> I've never had any trouble carrying an external drive in my laptop bag through the airport. I don't even take them out of the bag when it goes through the scanner- even though you have to take out the laptop.
Make sure your laptop is charged, and perhaps even on/sleeping when you head through security. A couple times I've been asked to power up external drives to show/suggest that they are actually drives.
That's happened more often when traveling with audio equipment and sometimes with video equipment, but these seem like a reasonable requests (at least compared to some of the unreasonable TSA issues we've all had to deal with). A note about audio equipment that probably doesn't matter here: You are carrying directional microphones, not shotgun mics.
Usually I get through security without incident. But being ready to power things up has saved me time and hassle in enough instances...
As for brands, I've used a mishmash. Currently G-Tech and CalDigit... often enough whatever the producers bring along. We usually copy files to two different hard drives and send each drive home a different way (e.g., one person takes one drive, another the other. Or one's shipped, the other travels with me or a companion).
Good luck,
Jim Feeley
jfeeley@gmail.com
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