Is this the retail version (boxed) or is it an OEM bulk drive?
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All that is in the box is the HDD enclosed in anti static wrapping. No cables or instructions, the drive requires formatting once installed inside your machine.
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My WD HDD came in a Brown Box w. Static Bag, Vacuform Buffers and nothing else. It works nevertheless.You will need mounting screws.
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I was trying to remember as I recall I do believe it was the retail version - but not 100% sure. It has been in my raid and I haven't experienced any problems with it.
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OEM Bulk. No retail packaging. No instructions. Only the hard drive itself - nothing else.
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Bare oem drives are quite different when it comes to warranty. Either buy the extra warranty offered or get the retail package. WD will not replace a bad OEM drive. TRUST ME, personal experience everyone.
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I have purchased several of these drives and they are new in factory packaging. if you do have a problem amazon and wd support are very good. they run at 100 to 110 mps speed and are very quiet.
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"Drive Only" is a bare hard drive. A "resellers kit" contains the drive, SATA cable, etc.
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It appears to be the physical box version like the one I own. I hope that helps.
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The link is showing different drives (Western Digitial, Hitachi, Seagate and Toshiba). Which model are you referring to?
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No, the drive is sealed of course. Bare means it comes without the retail packaging which includes all the cables and screws etc. If you have that stuff anyway, a bare drive which is just the drive is the better deal. The retail packaging costs extra money.
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Not sure what you mean by OEM I have one with that exact number that is dell labeled . do not beleive there is a seagate original with that nuber in fact i am sure there is not . -150 refers usually to the fact they made it for dell .
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Yes it's justs plug and play and it's recognized by any OS. I use windows backup with no problems.The drive itself is amazingly fast! I'd say it has cut hours a week in productivity.
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I received this week a WD RE3 OEM drive in a small box ("ASIN marked?") secured by nothing more than thin bubble wrap and two air pillows. The drive was loose in the box. I complained to Amazon and was promised a securely packaged replacement -- and received a replacement with exactly the same packaging, except that one of the air pillows was totally deflated. Poster in this thread who describes package with cables and disks obviously received retail item. OEM drives are shipped loose in box. I will not order OEM drives from Amazon again. Newegg doesn't seem much better. Can anyone share recent experience with CDW or Buy.com? I received this week a WD RE3 OEM drive in a small box ("ASIN marked?") secured by nothing more than thin bubble wrap and two air pillows. The drive was loose in the box. I complained to Amazon and was promised a securely packaged replacement -- and received a replacement with exactly the same packaging, except that one of the air pillows was totally deflated. Poster in this thread who describes package with cables and disks obviously received retail item. OEM drives are shipped loose in box. I will not order OEM drives from Amazon again. Newegg doesn't seem much better. Can... » Read More I received this week a WD RE3 OEM drive in a small box ("ASIN marked?") secured by nothing more than thin bubble wrap and two air pillows. The drive was loose in the box. I complained to Amazon and was promised a securely packaged replacement -- and received a replacement with exactly the same packaging, except that one of the air pillows was totally deflated. Poster in this thread who describes package with cables and disks obviously received retail item. OEM drives are shipped loose in box. I will not order OEM drives from Amazon again. Newegg doesn't seem much better. Can anyone share recent experience with CDW or Buy.com? « Show Less
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the drive i bought was sold by amazon and was in a sealed package. the first thing i did before opening it was to verify the serial # with wd's website. this has happened to me once before, i sent it back & got reimbursed, but had to pay shipping. always make shure it is OEM product so you get the warranty.
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Hard Drive wqrranties start as of the data of Manufacture. I have no idea about the whether this is the actual drive or a stock photo. I could only guess it is a photo of the actual drive.
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Sorry for the late reply - I have been travelling. The drive was described as a Seagate ST33000650NS. The supplier phoned and asked if it was OK to provide an HP branded equivalent MB33000EBKAB. I accepted. The part arrived - was brand new. The label had BOTH part numbers on it - so I was happy. If you check the Seagate site you will find that the drive is an ES.2 not an ES.3. Main difference is the amount of cache. ES.2 has 64MB and ES.3 has 128MB. The description was accurate, the title should not have referenced ES3. I am happy anyway - great drive.
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Yes it is. I am using the 1 TB version currently on Windows 7, Ubuntu and XP. No issues ever with this one or any of my other Segate disks so far that I've been using.
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I ordered mine from Amazon.com (not a third party seller). Mine came in a box. The drive itself was in a static shielded bag, but it was secured in plastic retainers. It looked like this: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/reviews/wd_caviarblack_1tb/1.jpg
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It's definitely OEM with no media. There is a recovery partition which contains everything you need should you need to rebuild, etc...and as a side note, the drive is partitioned C: and D: by default. I was able to delete D: and extend C:, since I prefer one contiguous space...cheers
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Mine was new. 500gig HD was included but i put in a 1 tera drive. Still works great after 6 months service through winter.