On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > > I recently bought a pair of internal 4-TB hard drives from an online vendor. > It looks like they probably bounced around a lot during shipping. Should I > expect problems?
What evedice is there that they bounced around? Damaged external or internal packaging? How were they package? Bubble wrap? Cardboard padding? If the drives appear physically damaged I'd be tempted to just return them outright. > That is, if they don't work right from the start, then obviously I should get > them replaced. But what if they seem to work at first? My guess is that > it's not a perfect binary situation, where they either are obviously bad or > obviously fine. Can they be damaged and have the effects of that damage show > up slowly over time? Is there any simple test (or set of tests) that I can > do right at the beginning, before I deploy them? If they spin up you're probably fine. Regardless, you probably have a year or two to return them under RMA if anything goes wrong; no different than if they arrived in seemingly perfect condition. Overall, I'd probably just try them. Which vendor? -- arno s hautala /-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
