Do you consider this appropriate hard drive packaging?

EnderW

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I bought a couple drives off newegg and of course they arrived in dubious packaging. If these were OEM drives, I'd send them back without question, but they're retail packaging so there is an additional layer of protection for the drive.

What do you think? Would you keep these or return?

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keep...retail packaging is fine plus the bubble wrap will keep it from moving around too much
 
I stopped buying hard drives from Newegg a couple years ago. It's not even worth it anymore. They simply don't care.
 
Where's the problem? These are retail boxes which themselves should protect the drives well.
 
I stopped buying hard drives from Newegg a couple years ago. It's not even worth it anymore. They simply don't care.

Your statement makes it obvious you haven't. They are packaged very well nowadays.
 
Where's the problem? These are retail boxes which themselves should protect the drives well.

Agreed. All the retail boxes I have seen have the HDD suspended inside by two "endcaps". If you taped the retail box up so it could not open accidentally, the HDD should be safe shipping just in the bare retail box.
 
Definitely. The retail box includes plenty of padding, and the bags of air prevent the drives from shifting during shipment.
 
It's hard to tell from the photos but the air bags were mostly on top of the hard drive boxes. So they could and probably did "slide" around some during shipment but at least the air bags would keep them from bouncing around too much if the box was flipped or turned on its side. Anyway I'm putting them in RAID1 so not as concerned as I would be other wise. But I will go back to avoiding newegg for hard drive purchases.
 
It does not matter if there were no air bags at all. The retail box could be shipped bare without serious worries, so having it sliding around in a bigger box is certainly not a problem.
 
I stopped buying anything from Newegg years ago. They used to be the best. Now they suck.
 
Huh? :confused: Whom do you buy from these days? (and please don't tell me Fry's Electronics. :) )

lol. no. I learned that lesson a long time ago.

Amazon, as long as it's shipped and sold by them or Central Computer, local brick and mortar which is great, B&H Photo is great as well.
 
That's exactly why the last few times I've bought drives I made sure they weren't OEM. After having one ship OEM style thrown inside of a box and finding a resistor broken off the bottom of the drive in the box, I stopped getting drives from Newegg at all. At the time they only shipped OEM and you couldn't get them in retail.
 
^ thats fine compared to what i have seen recently from others. At least the egg held the drives in place for shipping in place. Staples sent me a retail external box with nothing.
 
That's exactly why the last few times I've bought drives I made sure they weren't OEM. After having one ship OEM style thrown inside of a box and finding a resistor broken off the bottom of the drive in the box, I stopped getting drives from Newegg at all. At the time they only shipped OEM and you couldn't get them in retail.

Yeah, OEM from Newegg only worked if you bought quite a few at once (in my case 4) so you get a cut off piece of the foam padding they get the drives in.

This is no longer a problem for me though given i'm officially done with Newegg after their response to the 970 problem.
 
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