IBM HD

[Spawndude]

I bought an IBM 30GB EIDE UDMA 100 DESKSTAR 7200 from buy.com.
On the box the P/N is 07N4774, on the drive the P/N is 07N3929.

It seems the difference is OEM vs Retail.

So, is it under an OEM or Retail warranty? Or does it matter?

 

[borealiss]

oem and retail warranty should be identical from the manufacturer.

 

[Spawndude]

So if its the same drive and same warranty why the difference in price of about $20?

 

[borealiss]

with oem, there's less overhead i think. they don't need fancy packaging, instruction manuals, sometimes they don't even include the cables, as mine didn't come with them. you get all this with the retail drive. oem is just the disk in a box, plain and simple.

 

[XeonTux]

Yeah this worries me too.

I saw in another thread that IBM does have different warrenties.

I got a 45 gigger from buy.com and nowhere did it mention that it was gonna be OEM. I even printed out the page when I bought it.

Never had a drive crash, hope this one won't change that.

 

[LXi]

There is a difference between OEM drives and "bare" drives. IBM will not warranty drives sold to OEM, but they will warranty "bare" non-OEM hard drives. OEM vendors agree to handle warranty themselves thats why they're sold for much less, but these vendors will only warranty the drive if it came with their PC. Bare drives are different, they're soppose to be sold to end users and local shops alike, they just dont have the fancy packaging, warranty is the same from IBM.

 

[John]

LXi is correct. The drive you bought from buy.com is a bare drive, and IBM will warranty it should it fail in any way.