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alyarb

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If you live on the east coast it kind of sucks but I think it's worth it. This thing came in a foam glued-together box inside a sea of popcorn inside a cardboard box which is pretty good. I mean i've heard stories of newegg sending their drives in manilla envelopes so this would be an improvement.


Whats that program people use when they get a new drive? It's supposed to do a write across the whole disk? Is that slow or what?
 
The drives I ordered from ZZF last year had the best packaging I've ever seen. The worst I've seen has been Tiger Direct and MWave.

I run "chkdsk /r" on a new disk. That includes a full surface scan.
 
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I've bought a number of drives from NewEgg and they have always been well packed, as recently as about six weeks ago. I would buy from ZZF, but I love NewEgg.

I usually break in a drive by splitting it up into a few partitions and then copying a few big files from partition to partition on the same drive. And I try to run Crystal Disk Info to monitor for S.M.A.R.T. errors.
 
I agree with buying drives from ZZF. They come shipped in a nice foam "coffin", protecting it on all sides. I also ordered five drives from Dell once, and they came in a nice cardboard box with 1" foam padding all around each drive.
 
ahallanandtech said:
I've bought a number of drives from NewEgg and they have always been well packed, as recently as about six weeks ago. I would buy from ZZF, but I love NewEgg.

I usually break in a drive by splitting it up into a few partitions and then copying a few big files from partition to partition on the same drive. And I try to run Crystal Disk Info to monitor for S.M.A.R.T. errors.
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Agreed I have never had issues ordering drives from Newegg, and I like ZZF as well. I go with lowest price. I have heard of others complaining about packaging from NewEgg so i am not sure why some drives are packaged poorly and others are not.
 
JimKiler said:
Agreed I have never had issues ordering drives from Newegg, and I like ZZF as well. I go with lowest price. I have heard of others complaining about packaging from NewEgg so i am not sure why some drives are packaged poorly and others are not.
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Seems to depend wholly upon which of Newegg's three warehouses the drives are shipped from. I've received drives from Newegg that were packed well, and then I've gotten other drives that were put into an empty box and then peanuts poured on top of them....essentially putting the drive in direct contact with the bare bottom of the box and whatever shocks it gets from being tossed around during shipping.
 
For the egg, it just depends on which warehouse is doing the order, and how many items you order along with the HD.
East coast people usually get the bubble wrap + a few bits of popcorn which causes the HD to go to the bottom...

ZZF, with the foam is great, but since they only have a West coast warehouse, shipping is usually slow for East coast people.

Dell is very good most of the time.

TigerDirect--don't even think of buying a OEM HD from them, absolutely horrible packing, IF they bother to pack it in the first place, and not just throw it into a box and ship it off.D:
 
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