Antistatic bag

A bag that has been specially designed to help prevent static electricity inside the bag. These bags are often used to store and transfer electrostatic sensitive hardware. If you've ever purchased a computer hardware device such as a hard disk drive, sound card, or video card it's likely it came inside a dark gray antistatic bag. To the right is a picture of what this bag may look like.

It is important to remember that only the inside of an antistatic bag is protected, placing a hardware device on top of the bag and not inside of the bag will not protect it. In fact it is often more harmful to place a electrostatic sensitive device on top of the bag.

• See our ESD page for additional information and tips on protecting your computer from ESD.

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