madpoet Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I ordered 4 more on Friday and they shipped yesterday, so that's good. Are these AF drives? Trying to figure out how I need to preclear them. Quote Link to comment
aiden Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Ah... search is your friend. Check out the "Hard Drives" forum. Quote Link to comment
madpoet Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Forgot we had that one now Quote Link to comment
hklt Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Opened my shipping box today. Hitachi bare drive in a "shrink-sleeve" inner OEM box (not even any padding, the drive is basically "shrinkwrapped" to a carton inner liner that folds to hold the drive in place) packed in a slightly larger box with one air-sac. Quote Link to comment
Superorb Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 Opened my shipping box today. Hitachi bare drive in a "shrink-sleeve" inner OEM box (not even any padding, the drive is basically "shrinkwrapped" to a carton inner liner that folds to hold the drive in place) packed in a slightly larger box with one air-sac. Did it survive? I absolutely hate AZ's packing jobs. I always make sure to review them horribly on every order. Quote Link to comment
hklt Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Opened my shipping box today. Hitachi bare drive in a "shrink-sleeve" inner OEM box (not even any padding, the drive is basically "shrinkwrapped" to a carton inner liner that folds to hold the drive in place) packed in a slightly larger box with one air-sac. Did it survive? I absolutely hate AZ's packing jobs. I always make sure to review them horribly on every order. Another Hitachi I had ordered well before this promo came the same way and passed preclear without any issues. I don't expect this one to be any different. Having said that, I probably won't get to do a preclear on this at least until this weekend. Quote Link to comment
jason4207 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Opened my shipping box today. Hitachi bare drive in a "shrink-sleeve" inner OEM box (not even any padding, the drive is basically "shrinkwrapped" to a carton inner liner that folds to hold the drive in place) packed in a slightly larger box with one air-sac. I got 2 from Amazon a little while back. One for me, and 1 for my buddy. I thought that Hitachi box was pretty well designed. Seemed like it would absorb shock pretty well from any direction. Unlike some instances where you get a HDD wrapped in bubble-wrap, but corners are not well protected. I do wish they had added more brown paper or air bags to the larger box, and completely surround the inner-box. I don't understand why most shippers just use air bags or brown paper to just fill the outer box instead of surrounding the inner box on all sides to better protect it. The number of RMAs that could be avoided would seem to make it worth their efforts. My Hitachi passed preclear w/ flying colors. Quote Link to comment
Superorb Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 This drive is now $65 after rebate from Newegg. Quote Link to comment
hklt Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 This drive is now $65 after rebate from Newegg. And back UP to $89.99 @ Amazon, bummer. Quote Link to comment
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