JimR said:What is the difference between a bare drive vs. one that appears to be in consumer packaging?
Is it just the packaging.
For 5 bux difference, I can skip the glossy box.
JimR said:What is the difference between a bare drive vs. one that appears to be
in consumer packaging? Is it just the packaging. For 5 bux difference,
I can skip the glossy box.
Alot of times the bare drive only has a warranty thru who sold it to you. InWhat is the difference between a bare drive vs. one that appears to be
in consumer packaging? Is it just the packaging. For 5 bux difference,
I can skip the glossy box.
Thanks,
JimR
Alot of times the bare drive only has a warranty thru who sold it to you.
In other words, if it was a bare drive meant to be installed in dell computers or
a manufacturer, and you buy that drive from some street vender or strip mall store,
you might be out of luck if they go out of business or dont backup their drives.
If you buy a retail package drive , you get the full warranty of the manufacturer.
Actually, it's sort of the opposite. For warranty, it's best to buy
an OEM drive. Taking Western Digital for instance, the OEM
drives usually have 3 to 5 year warrantees. The same drive in
a retail package from a big box retailer will only have a one year
warranty. In both cases the warranty is directly through WD,
as it is for the other HD manufacturers. Also, an HD warranty
is usually based on the date of manufacturer, with a bit extra for
distribution channel time.
A drive bought from a big box may have been sitting on the shelf,
or in their warehouse for months, whereas OEM drives from small
computer stores are usually current stock. Any OEM drives I've
bought from smaller retailers have usually been manufactured
within the preceeding two months. Smaller operations usually
carry minimal stock, and reorder frequently as needed.
WD has a utility on their sit where you can enter a drive's serial
number to get the warranty expiry date.
GMAN wrote
Hardly ever, actually.
drives.
And that hardly ever is the case.
Bull shit look at seagates own FAQ at the URL below for the proof.manufacturer.
You do with bare drives most of the time too.
Western Digital drives are warranteed directly by them. If
you have a problem with a WD drive, you go to their website
and get an RMA number. You send the drive to them, and
when they confirm it's defective, they send you a new, or
refurbed drive.
Exactly, many require you to buy a stupid warranty to cover the drive if at all.
That is what this reseller does. He is a cheap ass ripoff artist
http://www.ebccomputers.com/
The reseller is under no requirement by say Seagate to
cover the drives that were meant to be sold only to rebuilders.
I had a 750GB Seagate drive go south and EBC computers in
Salt Lake City would not replace it, And seagate said it wouldnt
either due to it being a reseller drive, and not retail packaged.
Bull shit look at seagates own FAQ at the URL below for the proof.
Most drive manufacturers will not honor the warranty unless it was a built for retail drive.
You must in this situation return the drive thru the small reseller you bought it from.
Most the time these bare drives in static bags were
meant for system integrators to build into their pc systems
and as such have no warranty thru Seagate to the end home customer.
Q. Why do I have to go back to my place of purchase
to return a drive that was sold as a system component?
A. Seagate sells many drives to direct customers who use them as a
computer system component. In these cases, the Limited Warranty only
extends to Seagate's direct customers and is not assignable or transferable.
See AnswerID: 169851 for more information.
Warranty Policy and Limitations
No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product")
was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller.
Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users.
Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty
service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return
center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin
America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where
the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific
warranty implications.
GMAN wrote
all.
Hardly any do, actually. Newegg certainly doesnt.
Then deal with someone else, stupid.
That isnt the case with bare drives.
And you were stupid enough to not use the small claims court to **** over EBC.
And stupid enough to buy a Seagate drive when they have the stupid approach
too.
All of Samsung, WD, Hitachi etc etc etc will replace the drive if its failed in
warranty.
Thats just ONE manfacturer. Have a look at the others, they dont say that.
for retail drive.
That is a pig ignorant lie. You wont be able to cite anyone else with that
stupid requirement.
bought it from.
Wrong with Samsung, WD, Hitachi etc etc etc
Wrong, as always.
Not if the drive was meant to be sold to manufacturers who build systems.
Try taking a drive out of a name brand computer
and type in tghe numbers in the online WD website and see what
it tells you. it "WILL" tell you to deal with the PC manufacturer.
What my point i am trying to get across is, many of these small resellers
are selling you drives that were not meant for direct end user purchase.
These drives carry NO warranty whatsoever directly between the end user and say
WD, Samsung etc and the WILL NOT cover the warranty if you buy such a drive.
endlessly spewing here that it is not the case is just making you
sound like you are too ****ing lazy to verify this yourself with WD.
NO you don't.
Not if they are not retail opackaged
and are meant for sale to rebuilders only.
Right on the label of my 750GB Seagate drive, it states
"This drive is manufactured by Seagate for OEM distribution. For product
information or technical support, please contact your system OEM."
**** you as always.
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