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- Shipping a drive introduces several points of vulnerability (damage to storage media, electrostatic discharge, loss during shipment) and will ideally be a supplemental or fallback solution to transferring your files
- Create backup copies of your files on the drive before shipping – DO NOT ship a drive with your the only copies of your the files on it
- Solid State Drives (SSDs) are the most stable to ship because they don’t have moving parts, but they are also more costly
- This doesn't mean you cannot ship other types of drives, but you might preference SSDs if you have a choice
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