[mythtv-users] OEM vs. Retail Drives - Was: Dell dual-quad...

[Brian Wood]

Josh White wrote:
> All I'm interested in is the protection offered by an additional layer
> of card board.  I don't care if that layer has an ASUS, Cheerios, or
> blank label.  I could care less about anything else.  For example, I
> also bought a miniPCI network card for an old laptop.  It came in a
> plain box, with some bubble wrap, and an external antenna that I don't
> need.  That's fine with me, because it doesn't appear that the guy at
> new egg just removed the card from his old laptop because he just go
> himself a new one. 
> 
> As long as my new drive works, I'm happy.  All I'm saying is that
> opening the box to find a loose drive doesn't ADD to my confidence level
> that it will work. 
> 
> My main point was that I would expect packaging like that from a vendor
> in eBay, not from Newegg. 

You might drop them a note and tell them that, they purport to want
customer feedback.

beww