Hi All,
Newegg has been a lot better about shipping hard drives lately. Except for this latest case, I've always received them in their own individual little boxes surrounded by a thick bubble-envelope within that form-fitting box.
Yet. . . today, I received three WD RE 2TB drives from Newegg, and they're all just in the bubble envelope in one large box which came all the way across the country. It looks like they wanted to fit them in a smaller box so they removed the individual smaller ones.
If this were just for myself, I wouldn't sweat it. But it's for a server. I'd have a hard time sending them back when they could be fine. Yet I like to know that my server components at work have never been mistreated.
So. . . show of hands. . . would you use 'em? Send them back? How much testing would you need to do with them before you'd fully trust them? I figure I could put them in a RAID array and fully initialize it. . . and then goof around with it for a day.
--H
Newegg has been a lot better about shipping hard drives lately. Except for this latest case, I've always received them in their own individual little boxes surrounded by a thick bubble-envelope within that form-fitting box.
Yet. . . today, I received three WD RE 2TB drives from Newegg, and they're all just in the bubble envelope in one large box which came all the way across the country. It looks like they wanted to fit them in a smaller box so they removed the individual smaller ones.
If this were just for myself, I wouldn't sweat it. But it's for a server. I'd have a hard time sending them back when they could be fine. Yet I like to know that my server components at work have never been mistreated.
So. . . show of hands. . . would you use 'em? Send them back? How much testing would you need to do with them before you'd fully trust them? I figure I could put them in a RAID array and fully initialize it. . . and then goof around with it for a day.
--H