Joey Rockhold wrote: > Would it work to use a higher-capacity tape drive and mail a box of > tapes back and forth? > > - Joey > > On 1/17/07, *auditodd at comcast.net <mailto:auditodd at comcast.net>* > <auditodd at comcast.net <mailto:auditodd at comcast.net>> wrote: > > Hey all, > > My team at work needs an external USB hard drive that we can ship to > vendors and them them return. > > I'm thinking it would be nice if I could find an enclosure that > comes with a matching hard case that would withstand abuse by the > average UPS/FedEx flunky. > > Otherwise, we will probably buy generic external USB drives and an > Otterbox cases. > > Thanks for any input! Links to actual products would be appreciated. > > -- > ========== > Todd Young Tape drive would work, but then you have to worry about whether the receiving party has the right format. Not to mention that getting data copied to a tape would be quite the "fun" experience. OtterBox didn't have anything that would fit an external USB drive, but I did find a company called S3 that has similar products that would work. That combined with a generic enclosure and Western Digital drives will probably be our resolution. Western Digital has a great head park feature that if the drive loses power it uses energy from the spindle to park the heads. -- Todd Young