Packaging Quality from Amazon How well does amazon pack these drives when shipping them. I am hoping they don't just throw the drives in a larger box. Can someone please help that has ordered from amazon. Packaging Quality from Amazon How well does amazon pack these drives when shipping them. I am hoping they don't just throw the drives in a larger box. Can someone please help that has ordered... » Read More Packaging Quality from Amazon How well does amazon pack these drives when shipping them. I am hoping they don't just throw the drives in a larger box. Can someone please help that has ordered from amazon. « Show Less
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I have always had problems with Amazon packaging my expensive items safely. I ordered a large scanner and it came bouncing around in a huge box with no protection at all. Same with 2 very expensive cameras, 3 hard drives, and few other items. I guess it is easier for them to replace broken items then it is to spend money on padding. Or, the people in shipping are morons. I am ordering expensive items from affiliates or other vendors to avoid this as they have not done anything to fix the problem. I am a big customer and they pretty much ignore my complaints. It is what it is.
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I received mine a few hours ago. The pretty much put the box shown in the gallery in a packaging box with little or no protection. I dropped my box when I was picking it up, but I don't think it affected anything. There are plastic things that absorb shock from the drive in the manufacturer's box.I'm not sure how I can explain it in a better way.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61owr2hat9L._AA300_.jpg
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i order a game from amazon and yeah when it arrive the case broke lol.i don't mind since all i care is the game itself in working condition.case don't mean anything to me as long as i can play the game.i have order big TV such as Sony Bravia LCD HDTV 52" and amazon sure pack pretty good and safe so i don't know.i think amazon try to be careful with huge item, but little item like camera and games, i think they just throw it.sometime they will come in perfect condition, sometime they will come and the case would broke.
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Amazon's packaging procedures are downright schizophrenic. Large, heavy or expensive items get virtually no wrap or protection at all. Yet my cat's Whiskas treats arrive once a month with the manufacturer's original box completely surrounded by those big sheets of bubble wrap, and the whole thing encased in a *much* larger outer box. Fifteen bucks worth of kitty treats get treated like royalty, but fragile, expensive hard drives basically get booted out the door to fend for themselves. Weird.
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Ha! Absolutely true. Cheap items for my dogs are always secure with tons of paper/plastic padding but my electronic purchases are not. I just received my WD TV Live Plus today and there was a single plastic bubble in the box for protection. Not like a strip of plastic bubbles, one bubble! Next time I order electronics I'm gonna make sure to add a 2 dollar bone to ensure a proper packing job. :D
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OEM drives in my case, possibly European models not for sale in the US. Not covered by manufacturer's warranty - at least, not on the four drives I purchased and received today (and am sending back tomorrow). Strange that Amazon doesn't require sellers to publish warranty info. It's as if they encourage sales of gray market goods.
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I ordered from Amazon directly - no third party. The bad inner box was due to Seagate. The bad outer box was due to Amazon.
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Average packaging but it's a solid unit. I have had optical drives shipped from Asia to the US without issue but you never know how a handler might treat a package.
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My disks came intact, I purchased 2. amazon has a policy to guarantee your satisfaction. To avoid piracy issues, I recommend contacting them and having a new disk sent to you.
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I ordered the OEM drive from Amazon and received it today. The drive was wrapped in a thin layer of bubble wrap and placed loosely in a slightly larger box. I was shocked when I opened the packaging. I'm sure that the drive rattled around in the box its 2 days in transit. After installing, it appears to be working, but if it fails I'll have to suspect the packaging.
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Thanks Pete. I was considering this as I figured this was digital but I am guessing its not? Wanted to avoid the mechanics of a 3.5. I have an ssd drive in a pc I built and it screams. So this hard drive spins then I take it and is not digital as I first assumed. I see now that assumption was wrong and there is no advantage other than size. Thanks!
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I purchased two ST31000528AS 1TB Seagate hard drives and the drives were shipped in an over-sized box with minimal air paks for padding. The pair of drives had no packaging other then the anti-static bags, they were just lose in this over-sized box so they could bang into each other all the way to my house. The plastic anti-static packaging had holes in it from where the hard drives smash against each other while in transit.
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I ordered three from three sellers, even though the listing said the driver was included none came with any disk. I ordered three of these from three sellers as a test, two turned out to be the same seller, same return ID and shipper and item, but one was different and the unit I received though it looked the same, same case and sticker, had a different gold connector and a different PID. So it did not work on the linux environment I needed it to. All sold on the same Amazon page! This is not right and Amazon has too low a standards of integrity for me. As do the Chinese sellers who sell "about the same" items on the same Amazon page. That's not right! I ordered three from three sellers, even though the listing said the driver was included none came with any disk. I ordered three of these from three sellers as a test, two turned out to be the same seller, same return ID and shipper and item, but one was different and the unit I received though it looked the same, same case and sticker, had a different gold connector and a different PID. So it did not work on the linux environment I needed it to. All sold on the same Amazon page! This is not right and Amazon has too low a standards of integrity for me. As do the Chinese sellers who... » Read More I ordered three from three sellers, even though the listing said the driver was included none came with any disk. I ordered three of these from three sellers as a test, two turned out to be the same seller, same return ID and shipper and item, but one was different and the unit I received though it looked the same, same case and sticker, had a different gold connector and a different PID. So it did not work on the linux environment I needed it to. All sold on the same Amazon page! This is not right and Amazon has too low a standards of integrity for me. As do the Chinese sellers who sell "about the same" items on the same Amazon page. That's not right! « Show Less
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I once talked to a fellow on the amazon message boards and he told me he had managed to take the stock hard drive out and put in an ssd. That's what he told me he did. I took his word for it and maybe you should too. But it was just his word so proceed with caution. It might void the warranty if you do swap the hard drives out.
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Hi fellow amazon customer, i attached the the hard disk and i got no response from it. Probably the one is recieved got damaged, im in the process of returning it.
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I've just had my 4th large (>1TB) WD drive failure in less than 2 years. I've had more drives fail in the last 2 years than in the last 20. All of them large WD drives. I'm done with WD. All these failures were with drives less than 3 years old. Just absolutely unacceptable.
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I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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I ordered the same drive from Amazon earlier this year (order a 500GB, they were out so sent me a 750Gb). Delivery was quick as most things from Amazon are. I installed the HDD in a Dell Opti 760 which I would consider a small desktop. It works fine but it sure seems noisy. Everytime I go to use it, it seems to be crunching away doing something. I plan to replace it when I get the time. No problems with reliability.
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I opened mine up after both of them died. They had old used drives from 2007 in them. So it's potluck if you get one you can depend on. I bought these thinking I was getting new stuff. They don't make it easy to crack open to find out the truth. They were Seagate & WD drives from 2007 so are good brands. But being used they could have been abused, or well used. I could have got 2007 drives for almost nothing if that's what I wanted.
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Does anyone know whether they stopped shipping the b drives and started shipping the C or is it just a mystery prize kinda thing?
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I'm perplexed why you are asking me that question, for I'm not the person who sold it to you??? However way back I purchase two such hard drives for raid (0) they are operating excellent so far. Now to follow up your question when somebody sell you an Item it doesn't mean it has to specify to be warranted for numbers of Years??? If they tell you it is NEW it means never been opened from the original packaging even if the product was sitting on the shelf for a number of years. I hope that I understood your question correctly. As for the warranty I didn't have to recourse. Sincerly