Originally Posted by inzamam
Has anyone here had any experience taking hard drives not connected to a laptop/pc on board? I need to take three with me and I don't want them in my baggage because I think they'd get damaged. But because of the paranoia surrounding electronic gadgets and because my (American) passport says Origin: Pakistan on it I'm afraid they might be confiscated "just in case."
If you're on a domestic flight, don't show your passport as ID. I recently traveled LAX-SJC on AA, brought 2 bare hard drives in my carryon, and they didn't say a word. On the first part of the trip SJC-LAX, I took a router, PCMCIA wireless card, and a PCI wireless card in my carryon luggage. No problems there.