Open Box: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3EG HD203WI 2TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

 

Slight risk with the open box, but open box is at least better than refurbished.

Newegg should be paying you for this! 

 

...errr....are they? 

 

 

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just kidding.

 

I just bought 4 of them for $146.99 using BING to buy them and just finished preclearing them. Love those drives, just hope that they will last.

Haha, no, they don't pay me.  I just happened to notice these two open box deals while working on the wiki yesterday.

Decent deal but I've never liked the phrases "open box" and "hard drive" next to each other.  Also, has Samsung improved their RMA process any? Last time I thought about buying Samsung it was absolutely archaic compared to the procedures at Seagate and Western Digital.

I haven't had to RMA a Samsung yet, so I couldn't tell you.

Ditto here, I have about 9 Samsung 2TB drives and a slew of 500 Gig to 1TB drives for over 5 years and have yet to return a drive. The worst that happened was the partition changed from static to dynamic after a mobo BIOS update. R-Studio to the rescue and I got the data off. Reformatted the drive and it is still operational.

I've actually never RMA'd any drive of any brand...guess I'm lucky.  I had my first hard drive failure recently (fails SMART and SeaTools), it was an old 500 GB Seagate drive with a 5 year warranty (which expires in 2012).  The drive was in my desktop, not my unRAID server, but I wasn't using it to store any important data anyway.  I looked into the RMA process, but when I realized what a hassle it is (the packing instructions, specifically), I decided to just give the drive away to a friend.  I told him if he bothers to complete the RMA, then he can keep the returned drive.  500 GBs is a significant size to him, whereas it is negligible to me.  I really have no use for my 500 GB drives any more, I've been giving them away left and right.  I made one into an external and gave it to my sister for backups.