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What retailors properly package HDs for shipping

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DanNeely

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I'm shopping for a WD6401AALS to put in my new system, and don't want to play bubblewrap and packing peanut roulette with the egg.
 
Ordering single drives from Newegg is fine, it's the multiples that get packaged together that cause problems. I've actually been worried about some of the drives I've received from ZZF in which they could slide around in foam boxes that seem large enough for 5.25" optical drives.
 
I recently ordered 3 drives from ZZF. They each came packaged in the foam boxes that would have fit a 5.25 drive. 1 of the 3 was bad. The RMA drive came in the foam box, but had some peanuts stuffed inside to keep it from bouncing around.

Go figure.

Don
 
I must have ordered about 50 or so drives from newegg and haven't had any problems with them.
When I order 1 or 2 drives, they come bubble wrapped individually. When I ordered 4 drives once, they came in a foam drive package, the kind with about 20 slots.
 
I just got three from newegg. Each was in its normal plastic case and esd bag. That was wrapped in bublewrap and all of that was in a box filled with peanuts. Seemed pretty good to me.
 
zzf, provantage, dell, frys all do good job shipping hdds
 
When I ordered an HD from newegg a couple of months ago the packaging was fine. It came wrapped in a lot of bubble wrap and some packing peanuts.
 
I get mine from NewEgg fine. As long as you don't order more than one at a time. If ya need more than one drive and they've got free shipping. Place seperate orders. Bought probably 40+ hard drives from NewEgg and never had a bad one.
 
Fry's packed mine up pretty well. It wasn't oem though, so it was still in the retail box if that makes a difference
 
I would say ZZF, but they don't have the AALS at the moment, so I bought it from Newegg. I'll let you know how it's packed.

Same thing happened when I tried to buy an AAKS from ZZF, they didn't have it at the time so I got it from Egg. It was in a plastic shell wrapped in bubblewrap. I had sworn off Newegg after receiving a badly packed drive a few years back, but the AAKS was fine.
 
buy.com did a great job, I bought 2 hard drives, they each came in the foam carton in a small box and both of those boxes inside a larger box
I've got some pics somewhere
and ZZF is good too
 
A smaller shop out of Texas I used called directron.com does a great job packaging hard drives.
 
I bought 8 once from Newegg and they would bubble wrap two of them together with just one layer of bubble wrap in between - wonderful. I was hoping by ordering that many they would have their own trays or something.
 
Individual hard drives from NewEgg's NJ warehouse were well packaged with a liberal amount of bubble wrap and peanuts. They tend to wrap two hard drives together though; which I don't think is too much of a problem considering that every drive I've got packaged like that was in it's own plastic clamshell.

ZZF's packaging has often been poor in my experience. The last two drives came in the foam but nothing else. The lack of padding material caused the drive to slide around inside the box and a notebook HD slid around inside its foam.
 
I just got my 6 TB Hitachi's from ZZF and they came packaged in the box that holds 20 HDs from the manufacturer. Boy was I surprised. I had heard great things about ZZF so thats where I ordered. I went in with extremely high hopes and came out with an even bigger smile on my face. :D
 
gigabyte1024 said:
A smaller shop out of Texas I used called directron.com does a great job packaging hard drives.
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Directron used to be huge, they were the newegg at one time... too bad they never figured out that hiring a web designer might have fixed their horrible horrible layout.
 
I received my WD 640GB HDD from Amazon tonight and the packaging was wonderful. Came in two boxes, the outer box was twice the size of the smaller box. It contained many air packets. The small box is still quite large and uses the plastic HDD holding devices which were securely holding the HDD.
 
brokenarrow03 said:
Typically Newegg does a descent job packing a few HDs. Its when you get into the higher amounts that they are notorious for doing a poor job.
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Close, but my opinion:

Typically Newegg does a descent job packing a single drive. Its when you get multiples in one order that they are notorious for doing a poor job. If they are offering free shipping, just place multiple orders.
 
EnderW said:
Close, but my opinion:

Typically Newegg does a descent job packing a single drive. Its when you get multiples in one order that they are notorious for doing a poor job. If they are offering free shipping, just place multiple orders.
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Yep. Order a pair and for me it has always been a shittastic job of packaging. Perhaps they have changed or fired the guys packing but I wouldn't know as I don't trust ordering drive from there anymore.
 
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