Can x-rays damage RAM?

[Sedai]

I'm going back home for the holidays and I bought some RAM as a present. Can x-rays at airports damage RAM?!!
I spent a couple of hundreds on the RAM, so I really need to know.

thank you.
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[butchrecon]

Keep them in a shielded static bag (Silver bag like the ones Hard Drives come in) and you should be fine. i am no sure if the airport scanning system will harm them or not, But I doupt it would do any damage. You planning on taking them as carry on. You could wrap it up well and put it in your non carry on luggage. But I think you should be fine.

What holidays? James Collins
Systems Support Engineer
A+, MCP

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[Gort]

X-rays will be more of a threat to film.

The metal detectors use magnetic fields and can damage data on floppies and hard drives.

I'm pretty sure RAM should be safe in either case. Jon Holmen

http://www.djcyborg.com

http://www.i-hate-computers.org

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

They _claim_ it won't hurt your laptop at all...so it should be fine. Mike Wills
RPG Programmer

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my programming!"

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[Sedai]

thank you all! uve been great!!


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