Originally Posted by lmu2009

Hi All,

I will be traveling to Frankfurt from LAX soon and will be taking my laptop with me with my METAL-encased external usb hard drive.

I am concerned with both the TSA and the germans thinking that it might be a bomb or something as it is about 2 lbs, sliver metal encased, and pretty big. (fyi, it's a mercury elite pro 250gb drive from other world computing)
picture here http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D2%26hl%3Den

so my question is whether any one has gone through security without any problems....in the end I am worried that they will take it away from me because they just don't know what it is. i dunno what do you think??

thanks!