Mine was OEM and showed up in a box with some bubble wrap, it was in one
of those nasty indestructible plastic packages. You need to get cables
with them too, they don't come with one. The SATA cable was like $6 or
so, and I think I got a power adapter too. I probably had some in a box
somewhere, but they were cheap enough. newegg is good, if it didn't
work they take care of it right quick. I bought a projector from them 2
or 3 yr ago, it was DOA, they sent me a shipping label and shipped me
another one immediately while I was shipping the dead one back. I
thought that was quite trustworthy for a $700 item.
--R
Loren Faeth wrote:
I've always bought OEM drives, no problem. Mine have always arrived
well protected, but I have only bought one drive in the last 4 years
or so. Guess it depends on the merchant.
At 08:43 AM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
Rich Thomas wrote:
I bought one from newegg.com a coupla weeks ago for $90, free
shipping no tax, and it took 3 min sitting at the computer, no gas,
no hassle.
I was just looking at Amazon, the $85 Seagate looked like a good
deal, but why only 3 stars on customer ratings? It seems that they
had a firmware problem in the drives and many of them bricked
themselves.
I also noticed a review on Amazon that suggested a lot of the cheap
drives were OEM not retail, and the bozos were shipping them unpadded
via Fedex and UPS.
What's a good price on a retail box 1TB drive these days?
Mitch.
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