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My Intel X25-M 160gig drive shows up as KingstonSSDNow 40GB!

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It's great to hear that they're doing the right thing for you. It's crappy to hear all of these reports of returned and otherwise tamped-with hardware. Did you buy yours new or used?

If you bought it new, I'd be livid.
 
LOL @ bunch of conspiracy theories......maybe it was simply a label mix up at the Intel factory.

But, you guys a probably right.....it was most likely a HUGE mob ring that did it! 🙄
 
CurseTheSky said:
It's great to hear that they're doing the right thing for you. It's crappy to hear all of these reports of returned and otherwise tamped-with hardware. Did you buy yours new or used?

If you bought it new, I'd be livid.
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I bought it new from Amazon. And like I said, factory sealed, the drive was in the anti-stat bag with the security sticker on the bag and everything... I wasn't livid as much as concerned with whether I was going to be stuck with a $100 piece of hardware that I paid $500 for.

jjmIII said:
LOL @ bunch of conspiracy theories......maybe it was simply a label mix up at the Intel factory.

But, you guys a probably right.....it was most likely a HUGE mob ring that did it! 🙄
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Label mix up? If that's the case, it'd be an entire batch of drives -- maybe that did happen, but you'd think Intel would've noticed by now and recalled them, no? The manufactured date on the drive was in October or so if I recall correctly.

My money's not on a mob ring, but on someone at the factory doing it on purpose. As long as the one I get tomorrow works, I'm happy.
 
Fezmid, please don't get me wrong.....I'm very glad to see your getting taken care of by Amazon.

Hard to say how these drives get labeled, or run down the production line.....but mistakes do happen.
 
congrats on the return!

I was just gonna say isn't it possible this thing just got flashed with the wrong firmware?
 
jjmIII said:
Hard to say how these drives get labeled, or run down the production line.....but mistakes do happen.
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And now please come up with a variant where only one drive and not a complete batch gets mislabeled.. so long I can't imagine how that'd would work..


Though nice customer service, that's how it should be
 
There are plenty documented cases of retail tampering. Consumers need to be made more fully aware. For instance, the woman who bought an $138 box of rocks at Walmart, fully expecting it to be an Nintendo DS etc. Once the factory seal breaks the burden of proof usually rests on the buyer.

I doubt that these drives are retested by Kingston before being repackaged. So I guess it's possible for this to have been a factory mistake. Although the drives are individually tested by Intel before shipping, and these drives don't share the same hardware ID. I would imagine that immediately sends up red flags, but who knows.
 
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Didn't something like this happen a couple of years ago when one hard drive maker, can't remember who, bought out another company and people opened up the boxes to find that the hard drives were from another company and got all upset about it?
 
I once bought a lime, it turned out to be a lemon.

I'm sorry you had that happen to you, very strange... at least it was better than a DOA part... at least you have story to tell the grandkids...
Any update on the new SSD Fezmid? Or do we have to wait until monday? 😛
 
Not the worst case I've ever heard of... I remember a while back someone got sick because a jug of that blue sugary fake fruit juice stuff had been replaced with some jug of chemicals in the factory... it was traced back to a worker error because the two jugs looked so similar.
 
imagine being the guy who buys the 40gb kingston drive and low and behold it became his brand new 160gb intel hahaha
 
JSt0rm01 said:
imagine being the guy who buys the 40gb kingston drive and low and behold it became his brand new 160gb intel hahaha
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Sorry, I was so excited about receiving my SSD drive that I forgot to post here! 😀

I left work early on Friday in case Amazon shipped it requiring delivery signature (they didn't). I plugged it in, rebooted, held my breath... And it was an Intel 160G! Woohoo!

Installed Win7 Ultimate and started playing with the box - wow is it crazy fast! It loads Photoshop CS4 in 1.5 seconds, I installed Firefox in the time it took to blink. Windows boots in about 8 seconds (after the workstation POSTs). I was hesitant to spend that much money on my SSD drive, but I don't regret it at all now!!! 😀

And Amazon STILL rocks. 🙂
 
I've always had good luck with Amazon as well. Nice to see they still place customer service higher than most. You should e-mail Intel and inquire about the original SSD. They sometimes investigate matters like yours.
 
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