I love Newegg, tip-top service and great deals. But I've had an uncharacteristic set of bad drives from them recently. I'm not sure if the issue is the drives I'm choosing to buy (bare drives), the shipping method (maybe? I dunno), or if there is a industry standard problem with bad drives.
First drive; Seagate 7200.12 1TB. Drive detects in BIOS properly. Unable to format the drive out of the box with bootable WinXP install disk. I boot up MHDD and scan it to find that it's got more than 100 >500ms sectors some 400 <500ms sectors and scads of ~120ms blocks. This drive is clearly worthless, but like everyone I've heard of Seagates recent issues with some series of drives and chalk it up to that. RMA it and ordered two smaller WD drives.
Second drive; WD 640GB Caviar Black. Drive does not detect in BIOS, drive does not detect in XP install cd (of course), in MHDD drive is detecting as 'not ready'. This drive is also clearly worthless. I had ordered two of these so I threw in the second and viola, it works fine, I'm currently running on it fine.
One thing I've noticed about both of these orders is that they both were shipped UPS ground (probably not an issue) and that they both came from the Newegg RMA center! Were these drives previously RMA'ed? Were they already shipped back to Newegg's RMA center with issues? Is the drive I'm currently running going to give me trouble later on?
I'm not sure what to think, and I'll continue shopping with Newegg for sure but I wanted to let you guys know that I'm considering avoiding the 'bare' drives in my future orders.
Anyone else having issues with these drives from Newegg? Anyone having issues with ether of these series of drives? Maybe check what shipping you had on your last hard drive order?
-maux
First drive; Seagate 7200.12 1TB. Drive detects in BIOS properly. Unable to format the drive out of the box with bootable WinXP install disk. I boot up MHDD and scan it to find that it's got more than 100 >500ms sectors some 400 <500ms sectors and scads of ~120ms blocks. This drive is clearly worthless, but like everyone I've heard of Seagates recent issues with some series of drives and chalk it up to that. RMA it and ordered two smaller WD drives.
Second drive; WD 640GB Caviar Black. Drive does not detect in BIOS, drive does not detect in XP install cd (of course), in MHDD drive is detecting as 'not ready'. This drive is also clearly worthless. I had ordered two of these so I threw in the second and viola, it works fine, I'm currently running on it fine.
One thing I've noticed about both of these orders is that they both were shipped UPS ground (probably not an issue) and that they both came from the Newegg RMA center! Were these drives previously RMA'ed? Were they already shipped back to Newegg's RMA center with issues? Is the drive I'm currently running going to give me trouble later on?
I'm not sure what to think, and I'll continue shopping with Newegg for sure but I wanted to let you guys know that I'm considering avoiding the 'bare' drives in my future orders.
Anyone else having issues with these drives from Newegg? Anyone having issues with ether of these series of drives? Maybe check what shipping you had on your last hard drive order?
-maux