Newegg Hard Drive Packing

I think that Newegg has some "bad eggs" as employees that just don't get it or care to pack things well. My package came from Whittier, CA.
 
Well just installed a WD6400AAKS i got from newegg this week (packaged just like in the OP) and its dead - noticeable clunking sound coming from the drive itself. Time to RMA and order a new one but from ZZF this time I guess.
 
FWIW, I have had a very good experience with Newegg when ordering large quantities of drives which are then shipped in the original manufacturers packaging (i.e 20 drive boxes from Samsung).

I have had a very bad experience when buying a single drive. It was in the anti-static sealed bag wrapped in bubble wrap, bouncing around the box that had other content in it. When I got it the bubbles of the wrap were actually popped on one side, completely popped flat. There's a pic of it around here somewhere.

The drive works, and I didn't return it, but I will not buy single drives from the Egg anymore. I will still continue to buy the large quantities for work from Newegg though.
 
Thuleman said:
FWIW, I have had a very good experience with Newegg when ordering large quantities of drives which are then shipped in the original manufacturers packaging (i.e 20 drive boxes from Samsung).

I have had a very bad experience when buying a single drive. It was in the anti-static sealed bag wrapped in bubble wrap, bouncing around the box that had other content in it. When I got it the bubbles of the wrap were actually popped on one side, completely popped flat. There's a pic of it around here somewhere.

The drive works, and I didn't return it, but I will not buy single drives from the Egg anymore. I will still continue to buy the large quantities for work from Newegg though.
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True hard drive shoppers buys in 20 drive lots :cool: All vendors ships in the original crate.
 
All the drives I've ordered (dozens over the past few months) came the same way as the OP's.
 
Having heard bad things about ordering drives from Newegg, my most recent HDD (WD6400AAKS, if that matters) purchase was from ZipZoomFly. It came in two days ago packed like this.



There were air packets on ONE side of the foam 'box.' The box was also a tad large for the drive, so it was probably able to slide around a bit. Also, the foam box was too small for the cardboard box, and so it could slide around during shipping. Does this seem better than the Newegg approach? I honestly don't know, but the foam the box is not nearly two inches thick like the WD site recommends, and that was the only padding on one side of the drive.
 
some times my orders are put into the box and packing material thrown on top, leaving the other side exposed, but those were just some fans, all of my HDDs have come well packaged, but the AS suffix Seagate I bought was dead, but I don't blame newegg for that, I blame Maxtor...
 
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