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Just to add to this. I bought 10 drives 2 days ago. All came without any physical damage and passed all SMART tests.
Didn't expect any less though...not sure why people expect to get DOA drives so "often".
I don't think I've ever gotten a drive DOA.
SMART tests are useless, do a complete surface scan at minimum... 1 out of every 8 drives or so I get fail during the first surface scan