Does this hard drive actually come with an open top as the picture shows? I find that hard to believe, but at the price i am thinking it might.
1000739
No, it's just showing you the platter type and what it looks like inside. It's a perfectly fine working piece of equipment. It's not used, it's not refurbed or anything. This type of packaging just means that it was normally used in like OEM equipment, but they didn't need to use it, or that it was just overstock stuff. It's a brand new hard drive.
1000740
Its in a standard enclosure, idk why they even have the exposed picture lol just plug and play!
1000741
No, that picture is a symbolic graphic used to signify a hard drive. that is what the insides look like. a hard drive is a very sensitive device that has to be sealed because the slightest incursion of dust or any foreign material will ruin it. hard drives are manufactured in a sterile, dist free environ.
1000742
It has a cover. You could not run it as pictured. A speck of dust would break havoc with the head unit.
1000743
No, it comes enclosed in metal case ready to install and it runs cool and quiet it's a great hard drive for mid range computer
1995473
Hi D. Petitpas,I was wondering if anyone would ever reply to my post. I didn't know that these drives were shipped pre-formated and I don't think that it is listed in it's description here on Amazon. Thank you so very much for setting me straight!
636402
The hard drive is fully covered in a metal case, it is not open like the picture.
1554223
It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.
98249
Is it being sold as new? This might be a refurbished drive. In any event, WD's website can provide warranty info and drive status.
1038970
They put old used drives in these. So it's potluck if you get one that actually works, or will last long. When I opened mine up (I bought 2) they both had drives from 2007 in them. I bought these as new at full price. If I wanted a well used 2007 drive I could have got one for almost nothing.
2025537
No. There is an extremely over priced hard drive you can buy for it though.
143869
I bought mine a few months ago and it came with a 1TB but there are different versions (different GPU, processor etc.).
535638
It is a marketing thing. They all show the internals to the disk. When you get a new one it is sealed.
1634730
I was really surprised to find that the hard drive was not user serviceable. I eventually opened up the whole thing See pictures below. Opening it up was not that difficult. Just needed to be careful not to break some tiny keyboard connectors/cable. This is a good thin 14" laptop with DVD; the only complaint is this built-in hard drive thing. http://i41.tinypic.com/35hizhh.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/27yoif5.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/14l3faq.jpg
1728807
It is supposed to come with it but in my case did not. It also did not come wuith the optical drive I ordered to be installed. Also 2 of the USB ports were inoperative.My suggestion is do NOT by this computer, it is junk.
797803
Mine came with one. I have purchased three of these drives, and they have been great!
1128924
That raises the question: What is the "proper packaging" for this drive? And the corollary question: How do you know it when you see it? What I do know is that mine has worked without a qualm since I bought it.
144449
I still have mine and it is working fine! But I guess you will have to open it to find out if it is the case or the hard drive.
2129455
I can't remember, to be honest. It look professionally packed, only that I remember feeling like I opened a much bigger deal than a laptop hard drive. We've had no issues with it running in our exchange server since we bought it.
577039
Yes mine did and I've been using this hard drive for a while now and it still works fine.
2020261
It does not. It has a place that *looks* like it could be an optical drive, but it's a solid piece of plastic, and there is no way of opening it.