I ordered two of these drives from newegg and one came with the spacer on it and the other didnt have one... is this normal? I find pics online both with and without.
I had no "spacer ring" on mine. If by "spacer ring" you mean that sorta rubbery outer edge that I see in some images that block some of the mounting holes (that had me worried for a bit since I didn't think it had those holes for my drive bay adapter).
Yeah its like a plastic spacer that covers the top side of hte drive. I assume this makes it as thick as a normal 2.5" drive. They both seem to work fine in RAID 0 so I'm not to worried now.