WD 1TB WD1001FALS Caviar Black $109

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Lanyap
I complained to them about the packaging using this link: http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/Help/email.asp

So did I.

First drive passed WDDIAG5 extended test overnight. Started test on second drive before leaving for work, so I'll know when I get home.

 

[Jester666]

bought one from Dell, hope their packaging is better

 

[Infrnl]

Originally posted by: Zap
For everyone who ordered the drive from Tiger Direct... how was your drives packaged?

Mine just arrived today and there was no padding. NONE. The OEM drives were re-packaged in a plastic sealed blister pack (the kind you have to cut open). That blister pack has no padding, nor does it suspend the drive. Starting at the bottom of the box was the packing slip, one drive, a second drive on top of it and finally a small wad of packing paper on TOP of the drives. What the FUCK?!?! :|

I only had enough to buy 1 myself and I have to say that its the worst packing I have ever had in my life!:| It was the same as yours and others. It would have been safer in a padded envelope.

I will hook it up tonight and test it; I hope its ok. I will also have to complain through the link provided.

This makes NE's packaging look 1000's times better

 

[zposter]

Mine was in a box with a strip of inflated pillow packing on top of it.

Not great, but not the worst I've ever seen. The blister pack it was in probably protected it well enough. It's running fine.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: zposter
Mine was in a box with a strip of inflated pillow packing on top of it.

Yeah, protect the TOP of the HDD from being stepped on or something, LOL.

Originally posted by: zposter
Not great, but not the worst I've ever seen. The blister pack it was in probably protected it well enough. It's running fine.

Both of mine run fine too, but the blister pack does not adequately protect it. Something such as the Seagate SeaShell protects hard drives because the ridges act as a bumper of sorts. Same thing with the Samsung variants, with the extruded bumps acting as bumpers to cushin the drive. The blister pack protects as well as 0.4mm of flat plastic can, which is nada.

Everyone who is unhappy with the way their drives were packed should email Tiger Direct and complain. I did.

 

[zposter]

My second one came today and had paper packing that kept the drive tightly packed in the box. I think this was a little better packing than the first one.

I'd say a couple days of running it without putting your only copy of data on it would be adequate to see if it was damaged by shipping.

If we want to be scientific about it we could look up the non-operational Gs that the drive is spec'ed at and then test the amount of Gs that the average UPS gorilla could be expected to exert on the drive as packed.

 

[Infrnl]

My drive seems to be working fine; luckily.

How many gigs does your drive say is usable? mine says approx 923gigs. I cant believ NTFS has to use 77 gigs; thats rediculous. Thats like losing an 80 gig drive, lol.

I think manufacturers should accomodate for NTFS and give us rated useable space or at least a lot closer. so in this case make it a 1.1tb drive so we actually get 1tb when formatted

 

[dajeepster]

sorry to hear about all your problems with tigerdirect eom drives. I guess I should have chimed up when I first saw this thread, but I didn't because I assumed tigerdirect fixed thier shipping method.

I had ordered 4 of the hitachi 1TB drives from them back around black friday, the deal was $60 AR and livecashback.... well...
the sent me the four oem drives that were in those plastic childproof packaging, plastic like the memory is normally packaged in... you know that ones where you need a chainsaw to cut out because you can't tear it open and and a pair of scissors just isn't adequate enough. the drives showed up in a pink box that was one foot by one foot and 8 inches deep. I opened up the box, and my jaw dropped... they used 2 feet of brown packing paper that was a foot wide... the drives where just laying in the box and the paper thrown on top. the drives where rattling around... I don't even want to think about the shipping transit.

well... got the drives.... two were bad... that's a 50% failure rate. I called them up and complained vehemently about thier shipping and how you can't just through electronics in a box with no protection and expect them to work... case in point.. two bad drives.
They sent me two replacement drives that I had to pay for, until they recieved the bad drives and verified that they were not functioning. I recieved my credit a few days after they recieved thier drives.
well... when I recieved the two replacement drives, they were packaged the crappy same way again. I was lucky in that they both checked out fine and worked. I'm currently running them in a RAID5 as a movie server. at least I have back ups of my movies in case more than one drive fails at the same time. Considering how tigerdirect packaged these drives, the probability of that happening is high.

I'll never buy another OEM product from tigerdirect again. A retail product I might, because I at least know that it's in adequate enough packaging to protect the item. But as for OEMs from tigerdirect... I'm not going to risk it.

 

[Zap]

Wow, so they've been packing drives like this for a while.

Yeah, I don't think I'd buy any more OEM drives from them either.

 

[Lanyap]

I ran the WD diag extended test multiple times overnight and mine came up ok. I did some googling and found quite a few people complaining about the TD packaging issue. Even found a video.
http://s148.photobucket.com/al...rrent=CompUSATiger.flv

 

[henryay]

Originally posted by: Infrnl
My drive seems to be working fine; luckily.

How many gigs does your drive say is usable? mine says approx 923gigs. I cant believ NTFS has to use 77 gigs; thats rediculous. Thats like losing an 80 gig drive, lol.

I think manufacturers should accomodate for NTFS and give us rated useable space or at least a lot closer. so in this case make it a 1.1tb drive so we actually get 1tb when formatted

Hard drives are typically advertised in a decimal byte system while computers report binary bytes which explains the discrepancy. It is not due to the NTFS file system.

http://www.brettbits.com/Text/MissingHardDriveSpace/

 

[Infrnl]

Originally posted by: henryay

Originally posted by: Infrnl
My drive seems to be working fine; luckily.

How many gigs does your drive say is usable? mine says approx 923gigs. I cant believ NTFS has to use 77 gigs; thats rediculous. Thats like losing an 80 gig drive, lol.

I think manufacturers should accomodate for NTFS and give us rated useable space or at least a lot closer. so in this case make it a 1.1tb drive so we actually get 1tb when formatted

Hard drives are typically advertised in a decimal byte system while computers report binary bytes which explains the discrepancy. It is not due to the NTFS file system.

http://www.brettbits.com/Text/MissingHardDriveSpace/

thanks; I will check out the link later. I know they are never rated to spec, but I didnt think it would lose 70+ gigs. also I though you lost more using NTFS compared to fat32. anyways will check out your link and I am happy with the drive so far

 

[Coldkilla]

Originally posted by: Jumpem

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Boy that's a lot of work to keep a porn collection safe.

Financial spreadsheets, baby pictures, and hd home video.

aka: Porn.

 

[SP33Demon]

Where's the best deal to get these now? I missed the boat but still want one.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Where's the best deal to get these now? I missed the boat but still want one.

If you just want a good and fast terabyte drive but don't have your heart set on this particular drive, then consider the Samsung F1 1TB. It should be available at the usual places for around $100-105 shipped.