Everyone knows that all hard drives usually come in an antistatic silver bag. But, where do you purchase those hard clear plastic carriers (clamshells) that some companies use? I can't find them anywhere. Thanks.

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Buy your friends Toshiba\Hitachi and your enemies Seagate.

I would love to get some of those also, if someone will let us know.

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On a related note, does anyone have an elegant, or even a passable solution for storing and organizing thousands of donor drives? I considered blueprint drawers, but thought that was a bit overkill. I've come across packing foam that will hold 20 or so, but it's really hard to get without buying 20 drives...

I have plenty of 20 hdd foams, but using it for packaging.
I can save some (5-10)pieces in return for bubble wrap or foam layers.

I store my drives in boxes, 20 pieces per box.

I would also like to see a setup for a lot of donors.

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I use (in the UK) what is called the "really useful box" - they come in varying sizes, one of which comfortably holds (upright) about 60 drives.

Bit of a schlepp to pick up if you're disabled, but efficient use of space, very durable, and very stackable.

Trouble is, the drive you needs is always in the bottom box...


Duncan

Hi,

I packed up rarely used and realy bad drives into boxes and use steel drawer cabinet to store the frequently used ones. It has 5 drawers, each one can hold 95 normal sized 3.5" drives. really good, but costs a lot indeed.
Foam sucks I can tell U This cabinet is ~70x70x80 cm and can hold at ~500 drives, and even more slim drives.
500/20=25 foam thing would be needed, that will occupy a smaller room, not to mention the work u have to do when looking for something.

pepe

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Adatmentés - Data recovery

I use vertical shelfs of 2m high and 12cm large that can take up to 72 drives each. So I a few of those together and that's a cheap and useful solution.

IKEA Billy

You got the point

I used them too. Just remember to fix upper part to the wall...