Buying a couple of WD Reds this week- who packs the best

[Pandamonium]

Was stalking for deals for the past 2wks without success. I need to order the drives by ~Friday in order to get things set up before a move. (latest delivery Friday 5/24 or *possibly* Saturday 5/26)

So I remember that for a while, Newegg was awful about packaging and Amazon was king. Return/RMA policies were comparable.

Have things changed? Is there a third vendor I should cross-shop?

 

[ManBearPig]

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[boochi]

Superbiz packs well.

 

[rockyct]

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had issues with hard drives from Newegg. The last two I ordered a few months ago came inside a small box and then those boxes were in a big box full of popcorn.

 

[Crono]

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had issues with hard drives from Newegg. The last two I ordered a few months ago came inside a small box and then those boxes were in a big box full of popcorn.

I've never had a problem with packaging from Newegg, either.

Both Amazon and Newegg are fine in my experience. I've never had a DOA item from either, well except one motherboard from Newegg a few years ago, but that didn't look like it a was a result of packaging.

 

[Turbonium]

Isn't packing totally random?

I've had RAM shipped to me in a bubble mailer, and a USB extension cable shipped to me in a full on box with air cushions, both from the same e-store (NCIX).

 

[dawp]

if ya have a microcenter nearby, go pick it up in person and not worry about how it's packed.

 

[Mixolydian]

I've bought many hard drives from Amazon, including WD Reds, and have never had an issue with any of them.

 

[Meghan54]

While recent hd purchases from Newegg have been a box inside a box, unlike the bubble wrapped ones in the past, Newegg's packers continue to put whatever they're packing on the bottom of the box sans padding, and then pile the peanuts, paper, whatever, on top. Sorta defeats the purpose of using packing padding in the box when the item(s) aren't padded underneath, the exact spot that's sure to take a beating.

Microcenter continues to get more and more of my business, esp. since Microcenter pricematches Newegg so easily and without a moment of drama.

 

[dawp]

plus microcenter has the reds in 1t for $80, 2t for $115and 3t for $154.

http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?sku_list=851907+851931+851915

 

[ViRGE]

I would say Amazon is the best. They do a box within a box, with the internal box being a specially designed box that has proper plastic inserts to keep the drive secure.

Newegg sometimes uses the same packaging methods, but I also keep hearing periodic reports of them shipping drives (particularly OEM drives) in poorly packaged bubble wrap.