I just received my drives. They were packaged GREAT, they each were in a box that had form fitted black foam around them, then those 2 boxes were put in a larger box. They are warrantied for 1 year by dell, but that should be fine. So far they work great. It was funny, the drive spent like 4 days in transit to UPS according to dell, and I had to call them to get a UPS tracking number, but I finally got the drives yesterday. I got them for the $140 price, so 2 drives for $280 with the 8 meg cache, is a good price.