Lost Samsung SSD Found!

[corkyg]

Last Tuesday, I bit the bullet and ordered a Samsung 830 256GB SSD from Newegg. All of that went well. That night I got a tracking number and receipt.

The item was to have been delivered yesterday, but no such luck. It was logged in to UPS in Baldwin Park, CA from Newegg, but was never scanned out.

I then contacted Newegg to file a claim. However, this morning, a check of the tracking number shows the SSD to be in Portland, OR. How it got there is anyone's guess. Here is the latest UPS data:

It is now back enroute to me and should arrive Tuesday, 9/11/12. So, I called Newegg and cancelled the claim. We shall see what happens. Newegg is totally innocent, but there is something fishy in UPS.

As soon as I get the Samsung 830, I will prepare a detailed installation sequence illustrated with photos. I have seen a lot of controversy on installing a 7mm SSD in a Lenovo Thinkpad.

 

[sxegloxx]

Misload on outbound truck..NOT the Brown LTL trucks the HUB to HUB semi rigs

Chit happens all the time..

From a former UPS HUB Manager..srs

My facility processed 32K packages an HOUR. with a 98% Outbound integrity [chit loaded on the right truck]

THATS 640 packages on the WRONG TRUCK an HOUR. My facility ran 20 hours out of 24 hours a day.

The math gets insane..

 

[StarTech]

Wow, those numbers are incredible !

 

[MontyAC]

It happened to me once. My shipment went from CA to Oregon then back to CA.

 

[Burner27]

I had my Samsung 128GB go from NJ to FL to MA then to my house in NY. It was supposed to be 2 day delivery. Needless to say it arrived 9 days later.......

 

[Yellowbeard]

LOL....I am picturing your package arriving all decorated like an old travel trunk.

http://utini420.blogspot.com/2009_12_06_archive.html

 

[Coup27]

I love the 830. I'm slowly moving our entire company over to them (apart from our SBS2011 box (4x450GB SAS HDD RAID5)). We'll be using about 15 of them. Excellent balance of value, reliability and speed.

 

[Concillian]

I once bought a used auto part from someone in Utah. The part went to New York, then back to California, but eventually arrived. That was USPS.

I get the feeling this kind of thing happens with some regularity.

 

[corkyg]

The puzzler for me is, how did it get out of Baldwin Park without being scanned?

 

[Iron Wolf]

LOL....I am picturing your package arriving all decorated like an old travel trunk.

http://utini420.blogspot.com/2009_12_06_archive.html

I'm picturing his package looking like the Fedex box that Tom Hanks kept safe in Castaway. (Yes, I know Egg uses mostly UPS.)

I just did a big rebuild last week, including the same drive. You had me with "installation instructions with pictures" for a minute until I noticed the "notebook" part. In my Carbide, it couldn't have been simpler - 4 screws, two cables, and done.

I'm looking forward to when you can buy 1TB (or even 512GB) SSDs cheap. I will toss my mechanical drives and never look back. I never took you guys seriously (like some of my friends still don't), but SSDs really are a life changing moment.

 

[corkyg]

Well, it looks like it may actually get here next week. After Portland, it tracks to Roseburg, OR and then Sparks, NV. I believe Sparks is near Reno. It is at least heading in the right direction.

Iron Wolf - when you say "Carbide" what are you referring to? Would that be the Lenovo X1 Carbon?

 

[corkyg]

Latest update. As of early this morning, the Sumsung 830 SSD is now in Las Vegas, NV. Looks like it is going to make it here by Tuesday PM. What a trip!

 

[MontyAC]

Guess they want to show the SSD some tourist sights before settling down in your pc.

 

[sequoia464]

Guess they want to show the SSD some tourist sights before settling down in your pc.

I have heard that the Samsungs are well rounded SSD's, it appears that at least this one is well traveled also.

 

[corkyg]

Could be a problem here - what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! This may be an interesting installation!

 

[thecoolnessrune]

There's an issue with installation in Thinkpads? Didn't know that. I have a Thinkpad T510 that I upgraded with a Samsung 830 256GB SSD. Put the little rubber bumpers on and slid it into place. Couldn't be more painless.

 

[sxegloxx]

The puzzler for me is, how did it get out of Baldwin Park without being scanned?

Loaders are required to SCAN EVERY PACKAGE they place on an outbout truck. Obviously that doesn't happen. an Average truck load will take 4 hours to load. 57 foot trailer. theres about 4-7 THOUSAND pieces per large truck.
If volume gets to large boxes will litteraly flood into a trailer without being scanned OR loaded properly. SMALL boxes are at the greatest risk.

True Story: I've wached someone unload half a truck to find someones PROSTHETIC LEG that got put on the WRONG out bound truck. LMAO...Thats digging through thousands of boxes..

 

[Dahak]

True Story: I've wached someone unload half a truck to find someones PROSTHETIC LEG that got put on the WRONG out bound truck. LMAO...Thats digging through thousands of boxes..

hope this does now sound insensitve, but would that not be LMLO (laughing my leg off)

yea a missed scan is odd, but i have seen sometimes where it does not update as fast as it should.

 

[AlexAL]

It's happened to me too, where the order would be updated from the initial status to delivered with all kinds of transient points inbetween on the same day of receipt. I was not worried about foul play and didn't need the piece for urgently, and it was all peachy in the end.

 

[corkyg]

Looks like today's the day! It says, "Out for delivery." Could this be a conspiracy by UPS to arrange delivery on my birthday? <LOL>

We are almost in the SSD camp!

 

[MontyAC]

Wow, 7 day shipping. Slower than getting a Korean monitor.