Best way to ship a computer?

[Mobius One]

[Rattler]

Remember: shipments go by car, and cargo goes by ship.

[JensenPark]

Oh yes, I remember fondly being in this situation 2 years back.

Me in Victoria and wife and computer in Ottawa.

My wife couriered it out in a regular cardboard box...

Arrived with the case broken and lots of little pieces jingling around inside.

Go to a Kinko's or place like that and have them package and courier it...safer - and cheaper in the long run.

[B16Enk]

Yup get it specialist shipped.

Personally, in light of my experience when moving house, I would also take the drive(s) out and ship them in my pocket.

Reminds me of when I consolidated three offices into one new office in Ireland, for Nokia, year before last.

Took all the disks out of the servers, critical business data was on them and didn't want the labourers moving those too with the furniture, and asked one of the office managers to transport them in her car for me.

Explained how fragile they were, and that is why I was asking her to transport them for me (I didn't have a car there and was dependant on taxis) and awaited their safe arrival at the new office.

She walked in with the box, lowered it towards the floor and whilst 2 foot above it just let go...crash!!

My heart in my mouth I could only turn around and walk out of the office for a ciggy.

Thankfully the 100+Gb of business data was OK as the disks survived the G shock, and I was thankful I didn't have to spend an extra day there waiting for replacements to do a restore to.