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Intel 320 casing - bad finish

frostedflakes

frostedflakes

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Got my 320 yesterday and noticed that the finish on the bottom is really, really bad, like someone forgot to send the bottom piece through the acid bath or something during manufacturing. I mean it's just a cosmetic thing, I really couldn't care less about how it looks. But mainly I just wanted to know if this is normal or a defect, and if it is a defect, if it could cause problems in the future if I ever tried to RMA the drive to Intel. I'd hate for them to deny the RMA due to physical damage or something that was a manufacturing defect and out of my control.

My pictures don't do it justice, it looks worse in person. First two pics are of my drive, third is another drive from a thread about this I found while Googling that shows what I'm talking about better than my pics.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/frostedflakes/IMG_2559_sm.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/frostedflakes/IMG_2561_sm.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6973/dsc02404a.jpg
 
Aside from couple of visible scratches I do not see anything unusual. My G2 drive and afaik most of the intel drives look like that.
 
Good to hear, just wanted to make sure this was normal. Now that I look more closely at review pics I can see that their drives are similar. I guess I just never noticed it because in photos with good lighting the blotchiness is kind of hard to see. As much as Intel charges for their SSDs you'd think they could spend $0.50 or whatever to polish the bottom aluminum piece and give it a nice look, but it doesn't affect functionality so it doesn't really matter I guess. 🙂
 
Just not used to receiving aluminum computer parts that arrive from the factory tarnished I guess. Aluminum heatsinks are usually cleaned up before being shipped, brushed aluminum cases don't ship out with the metal already tarnished, etc. Like I said just wanted to make sure it was normal and not a defect, didn't want it to come back and bite me in the butt later if I ever needed to RMA the drive.
 
Emulex said:
hard drives come rough on the unpainted aluminum.
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Yup. Except for ones painted black, or the top lid where the label is stuck (usually shiny finished) the rest of an aluminum colored HDD often looks like that.
 
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