I wouldn't worry about "parking" the hard drive, mainer. We bought our desktop in Puerto Rico, unpacked it so we could fit the parts in available spaces in our sailboat, and brought it to Samana. When we got to Samana and were preparing to move off the boat into our condo in Sosua, we got a couple of guys to help us. We put the computer components in plastic bags to protect them from the salt spray, but all were carried ashore in a dinghy, then carried up a hill (on the head of person carrying the CPU and the monitor) to the road where we had transportation. When we got to Sosua, we connected everything and have been using the computer since then without trouble. What you plan is a piece of cake in comparison.