Hard drive packaging: Newegg vs Mwave

[JellyBaby]

I've purchased hard drives from both sources. Mwave packs OEM drives in small boxes with no padding. The drive is supported by 2 plastic "holder" pieces. Newegg, however, wraps OEM drives in about 2-4 inches of anti-static bubble wrap.

The 1200JB I ordered from Mwave occassionally "clicks" and I've had to reformat it. The 1200BBs and JBs from Newegg have all been working perfectly. Coincidence? Doubt it. I think Newegg's packaging is superior.

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
I've purchased hard drives from both sources. Mwave packs OEM drives in small boxes with no padding. The drive is supported by 2 plastic "holder" pieces. Newegg, however, wraps OEM drives in about 2-4 inches of anti-static bubble wrap.

The 1200JB I ordered from Mwave occassionally "clicks" and I've had to reformat it. The 1200BBs and JBs from Newegg have all been working perfectly. Coincidence? Doubt it. I think Newegg's packaging is superior.

any ibm drives I've gotten back from RMA have just been packed the way you described from mwave

 

[Utterman]

There have been several threads about the WD JB drives clicking, but I'm not sure if it led to any failures of the drives.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
I've purchased hard drives from both sources. Mwave packs OEM drives in small boxes with no padding. The drive is supported by 2 plastic "holder" pieces. Newegg, however, wraps OEM drives in about 2-4 inches of anti-static bubble wrap.

The 1200JB I ordered from Mwave occassionally "clicks" and I've had to reformat it. The 1200BBs and JBs from Newegg have all been working perfectly. Coincidence? Doubt it. I think Newegg's packaging is superior.

The 2 plastic holder things is the way both Maxtor and Seagate ship their retail products, I wouldn't blame that for any problem you are experiencing with the drive.

 

[JellyBaby]

True enough but I do believe the bubble wrap approach is better. That way if UPS takes the package "downtown" it should have a good chance to survice. Without seeing comparative return figures we can only guess.

 

[amdskip]

It may be the shippers actually:

UPS (Mwave) vs. FEDEX (Newegg)

 

[everman]

I really doubt it is either the shippers or materials, they both should be adequate. You'd need to do much more extensive testing to come to any real conclusion.

 

[sharkeeper]

IME, both sellers inadequately pack drives. Hypermicro knows how to pack drives. I've *never* had a drive go bad from them. The other guys, OTOH. :| Of course we're talking SCSI vs. IDE but as far as shock resistance goes NO drive should be mistreated!

Cheers!

 

[Rushour]

I've purchased hard drives from both sources. mwave packs OEM drives in small boxes with no padding. The drive is supported by 2 plastic "holder" pieces. Newegg, however, wraps OEM drives in about 2-4 inches of anti-static bubble wrap. The 1200JB I ordered from mwave occassionally "clicks" and I've had to reformat it. The 1200BBs and JBs from Newegg have all been working perfectly. Coincidence? Doubt it. I think Newegg's packaging is superior.

Newegg shipped from different location too!!, Everytime when I received package from Newegg.com with a perfect packaging. It is worth to pay few dollars more for the service.

"BE SMART TO PICK A RIGHT VENDOR":disgust:

 

[JellyBaby]

That's what I'm saying. 🙂 I feel a retailer who goes the extra mile to improve hard drive packaging deserves some recognition.

 

[kgraeme]

Yeah, I used to really like MWave, but after several orders were extremely poorly packaged, including drives with subsequent problems, I haven't ordered from them since.

The thing that really irks me is not only is it poorly packaged. It's in recycled boxes. They put my drives in an OEM bulk MS software box. They put my motherboard in a USPS Priority Mail box turned inside out. The USPS explicitly states that the boxes aren't to be reused.