<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Ben Kamen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkamen@benjammin.net">bkamen@benjammin.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
We bought 10 of them from Newegg. They came in a white foam carrier half wrapped in bubble and then placed in a box with a little additional paper wadding **UPSIDE DOWN**.<br>
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Not exactly what I would call stellar packing.<br>
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2 of 10 drives DOA.<br>
* 1 spins up -- but never reports to the system.<br>
* 1 spins up but smart reported 1140 reallocated sectors during raid build -- and was failed out</blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>14 of these (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DL003/dp/B004CCS266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306532491&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DL003/dp/B004CCS266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306532491&sr=8-1</a>) shipped direct from Amazon.<div>
<br></div><div>Packed in a MASSIVE box, each drive inside it's own box, held between plastic carriers, inside an antistatic bag.</div><div><br></div><div>All drives passed complete R/W surface test, zero issues, zero drive fallout in +6 months.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Color me impressed... any with lots of spare drive space. :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>