04-16-2010, 08:03 PM
I'm the OP.
The inner box just has the hard drive in those two little plastic end cradles, which means that it's pretty snuggly suspended inside the larger box. If I were to shake the inner box, the encradled hard drive might shake a tiny bit.
But look. The point of having foam/peanuts/airbag/crumpled paper between the inner box and the outer box is so that the padding deforms, rather than the full impact going to the inner box. It's not like there's a perfect transmission of force from the outer box to the inner box; you want to reduce the force transmission as much as you can.
The inner box just has the hard drive in those two little plastic end cradles, which means that it's pretty snuggly suspended inside the larger box. If I were to shake the inner box, the encradled hard drive might shake a tiny bit.
But look. The point of having foam/peanuts/airbag/crumpled paper between the inner box and the outer box is so that the padding deforms, rather than the full impact going to the inner box. It's not like there's a perfect transmission of force from the outer box to the inner box; you want to reduce the force transmission as much as you can.