question: does newegg... get lower quality hard drives?

[OutHouse]

a co-workers brother works for western-digital here in boulder and he told me that online stores get the bottom of the barrel quality when it comes to hard drives and is why online stores like newegg can sell them so cheap.

i dunno if this is true but it may explan why the hard drives i get from newegg have a higher failure rate for me.

 

[KLin]

So who gets the highest quality drives? OEM's(Dell, HP, Gateway, etc)?

 

[So]

Sounds like confirmation bias on your part -- I'm gonna go with "no"

 

[TruePaige]

That sounds illegal.

If I buy two hard drives, and are told they are the exact same, it shouldn't matter where I buy them from.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: KLin
So who gets the highest quality drives? OEM's(Dell, HP, Gateway, etc)?

yes, sorry forgot to add taht

 

[Shawn]

yeah right

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Shawn
yeah right

Like, as if!

 

[waggy]

wait!? aint this the same thing that most here claim Walmart does?

 

[Soundmanred]

I bought one at Newegg and it didn't work.
I opened it up and the platters were made out of cardboard.
CARDBOARD!!

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
I bought one at Newegg and it didn't work.
I opened it up and the platters were made out of cardboard.
CARDBOARD!!

IT'S THIS ECONOMIC DOWN TURN I TELL YA!

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Maybe it was one of those silent drives

 

[Xavier434]

No. It doesn't make any sense at all. How would this sort of business practice help WD or any hardware company for that matter?

 

[phonefreak]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
I bought one at Newegg and it didn't work.
I opened it up and the platters were made out of cardboard.
CARDBOARD!!

Cardboard? dude I got news paper. I see they are saving the better quality stuff for you.

 

[benzylic]

Originally posted by: waggy
wait!? aint this the same thing that most here claim Walmart does?

But when it happens to a place they like to shop at, it just cant be true!

 

[Spineshank]

I own 2 WD drives from Newegg and both have been running for years.

 

[CptCrunch]

Originally posted by: Gnrslash4life
I own 2 WD drives from Newegg and both have been running for years.

agreed. I haven't had any hard drives in my machines bought from newegg, oem drives, zip zoom fly fail on me. only the really old ones picked up from surplus have had bad drives.

 

[Captante]

I seriously doubt your friend is correct especially when it comes to retail models ... OEM drives are also most likely the same quality when they leave the factory but I do think they get treated a bit more roughly due to inferior packaging.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
No. It doesn't make any sense at all. How would this sort of business practice help WD or any hardware company for that matter?

Because they could sell the lower quality ones to consumer market and sell the high quality ones for server/midrange/mainframe storage at a much higher cost.

 

[I4AT]

How exactly does one test for the "quality" of a hard drive? I would assume there are two options, either it works or it doesn't.

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: Citrix
a co-workers brother works for western-digital here in boulder and he told me that online stores get the bottom of the barrel quality when it comes to hard drives and is why online stores like newegg can sell them so cheap.

i dunno if this is true but it may explan why the hard drives i get from newegg have a higher failure rate for me.

I call BS. Online retailers are able to sell drives cheaper because they don't have to maintain store locations, inventory, and employees nation-wide.

 

[hoihtah]

let me shed some light on this matter.

newegg gets their hds cheap with their volume discount, not with lower grade products.
there are some other vendors out there that gets gray market products (products meant to be sold in other countries), and sells them for less.

newegg is a seagate authorized retailer, which means that they cannot sell gray market products.

as for gray market products, i'm sure others in the industry can give better info.
but in general, different countries have different laws that the manufacturers have to abide by.
that may or may not mean depreciation in quality.

so clearly, it's not a online vs b&m.

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Xavier434
No. It doesn't make any sense at all. How would this sort of business practice help WD or any hardware company for that matter?

Because they could sell the lower quality ones to consumer market and sell the high quality ones for server/midrange/mainframe storage at a much higher cost.

Yeah they devote more resources to those lines, but those systems would use SCSI, not IDE. Hence irrelevant to the topic of the thread.

If anything, the big OEM manufacturers get the crap drives, they are more often a lot noisier and a lot slower that drives given to retailers.

 

[hydroponik]

Also, lots of the HDs you get from newegg are "white box", meaning less cost for materials used in the retail packaging

 

[Shawn]

that shit is bananas

















B-A-N-A-N-A-S

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: waggy
wait!? aint this the same thing that most here claim Walmart does?

Exactly my thoughts, Target Tide is higher quality than Walmart Tide:roll:

Tell your reference that he's smoking something good.