It's important to note that the UPS/Fedex stores are all independently
owned and operated, so if they do an insufficient job of packing the
system, you won't have any recourse to UPS or Fedex. You'll have to get
the local place to take responsibility or possibly even sue in small
claims court if there was damage due to their insufficient packing.
--Ted
On 4/12/2012 12:15 PM, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
I've been known to put servers in a car/truck and bring it down to the
local UPS (or similar type of shipping) store and have them deal with it
since they'll have the pallets, wrapping/packing material, etc. It'd
probably be good to call ahead of time w/ some measurements, though.
The last time I went this way I just brought it down to the store and
it took them a day or so to get things together to pack it all up.
If this is something you're going to do frequently or if you have a lot
of servers to ship, then I'd look at getting my own material to do it.
It really depends on the shape and weight of the servers, but plastic
wrapped server in cardboard box w/ blocks of foam, probably plastic
wrapped again, and attached to a pallet.
Also, is there data on these servers? Is it sensitive data? Do you
care about the data? On RAID arrays that I've shipped around, I've been
known to pull the drives and ship them separately, split into 2 or 3
shipments. The goal being that there shouldn't be enough disks in any
one shipment which would allow for the data to be read/reconstructed.
Encrypting the data is also useful, of course, if that's an option.
It's probably obvious, but before using the servers on the remote side,
make sure to have someone go through and make sure nothing came loose
during shipping. Cables, RAM, IO Boards, etc, can look like they're ok
but really be slightly popped out causing havoc.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Joshua Nichols
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Does anyone have any tips on safely shipping large (i.e. 4U, 5U)
servers across the country when original packaging is unavailable?
I realize this is a bit plebeian, but I'm sure someone on this
list has some meaningful advice on it.
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