Shipping Hard Drive -- Please Help

[Mike_C.]

Hi,
I just traded a Western Digital 4.3 GB hard drive to someone from the For Sale/For Trade Forum, and I'm curious to know what, if any, special precautions I need to take when shipping it. I think I've heard that the heads auto park on newer hard drives (anything from the last 4 years or so), so there should be no danger to them, but I had never shipped one before, so I wasn't sure. I'm going to ship around lunch today, so any help before then would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike C.

 

[roc919]

Make sure you have secure padding in the package that will prevent the hd from shifting AT ALL.

 

[Mike_C.]

Thanks for the suggestion.