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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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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ive been burning with amazon's basic dvd+r stuff for a while and after a few hundred disks, very few fails.i think my drive is burning up now, is the only problem, but its old and has about 1k burns through it.
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Unfortunately, I think the warranty needs to be purchased ahead of time. So far my hard drive is doing alright (knock on wood). If you did order from Amazon.com perhaps they have a warranty??? Sorry, hope things work out!!!
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Hard to tell, but if the drive was working fine before putting it in the enclosure, then there's a good chance the enclosure is defective. The quality is pretty bad, unfortunately... Same thing happened to me. I complained and got a replacement. Any chance you can put your drive in a different enclosure, to test it?
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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.
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This is my third WD Black drive in the last five years, and they have always been top quality performance-driven drives. I have bought these since I have not yet taken the plunge on the SSDs (Solid State Drive) yet. I do some gaming and most of my most important documents and such are on a couple of these drives. Western Digital makes some of the best drives out there, and the one time I helped a friend return a drive under warranty, it was as good an experience as one could ask for. I also buy these drives only from Amazon as the other person commented on, and the warranty on these drives is one of the best in the industry. This is my third WD Black drive in the last five years, and they have always been top quality performance-driven drives. I have bought these since I have not yet taken the plunge on the SSDs (Solid State Drive) yet. I do some gaming and most of my most important documents and such are on a couple of these drives. Western Digital makes some of the best drives out there, and the one time I helped a friend return a drive under warranty, it was as good an experience as one could ask for. I also buy these drives only from Amazon as the other person commented on, and the warranty on these drives... » Read More This is my third WD Black drive in the last five years, and they have always been top quality performance-driven drives. I have bought these since I have not yet taken the plunge on the SSDs (Solid State Drive) yet. I do some gaming and most of my most important documents and such are on a couple of these drives. Western Digital makes some of the best drives out there, and the one time I helped a friend return a drive under warranty, it was as good an experience as one could ask for. I also buy these drives only from Amazon as the other person commented on, and the warranty on these drives is one of the best in the industry. « Show Less
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I ordered mine on January 20 and still not a peep from Amazon...just visited the 5th avenue store and they had a shelf full of the 500 Gb model (no 1 TB models anywhere though...). Amazon should at least give us some kind of update on when they expect them!
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I ordered 2 came in one box; one was fine and the other was smashed beyond recognition. It's been my experience that if it comes from Amazon proper they're more careful in packing.
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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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Every drive I have ever purchased has been new - and worked great. If I got one that was old or used I would have certainly returned it - and if you are indeed buying new and got used, I would expect that you could contact Amazon for a return.
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I just connected a 500GB (WD500AADS, ASIN: B002P3KO4C search it on Amazon) drive using a sata to USB connector (ASIN: B000J01I1G search it on Amazon). I had to use the tuner to format (fat32), and it shows up as a 465GB drive. I hit the PVR button, and recorded a sample, no problem. I imagine the pre-packaged drives would work the same.
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I am not sure if it is true, but I read (perhaps in another review) that these are OEM drives for PC manufacturers, and hence they are not warrantied to the end user, but instead through the PC manufacturer. If you read other reviews, it is mentioned that they might be pulled from servers and the SMART data wiped. That said, I have ordered 4 of these and haven't had any complaints yet after a few months.
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In October, my 7200.11 came packed in two black plastic end-caps suspending it inside a recycled cardboard box. Looks like Seagate standard; at least, it has their HDD model number label on the outside of the box. That should be fine for the drops from most shipping gorillas, but recycled D-flute crushes easier than virgin, so it ought to be inside a second box to ship. (My particular order happened to be inside another box with other items.) The black plastic caps seem like the same plastic as Other World uses to ship their finished-goods external drives.
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No they have not. I just received a 500GB Seagate today. The packaging is completely defective. The drive itself was in a cardboard box with extremely flimsy inner dividers that were suppose to "suspend" the drive in the middle. One of the divider tabs was broken (quite clearly due to poor design) and my drive was sitting on the bottom of the box. There was no form-fitting plastic clam shell. This defective box was then put in an outer shipping box which had plastic air bags only on top. This means my drive was effectively shipped with ZERO padding. The only thing between the drive and the hard ground was two pieces of cardboard. I'm sure the postal carrier had great fun with it. It boggles the mind that anyone could ship a hard drive like that.
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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.