Best to read the reviews before buying one of these, imho.
Judging from customer reviews, it appears that any individual drive is either excellent or dog hockey. About 20% of the ~80 reviews indicate problems, with a significant number being DOA or infant mortality.
It *is* an attractive price, and anyone with the guts to buy and hope for a good one might do well. But I wouldn't want to deal with warranty replacement (plus paying the shipping to have their problem fixed!), and get a probably refurb drive back.
My personal impression is that the quality of all IBM / Deskstar / Travelstar drives went significantly down when Hitachi bought the line. When a customer says "What's this SMART error thing?" the drive's usually Hitachi.
DrKlahn said: ..and get a probably refurb drive back.
It's been my experience that the majority of manufacturers will replace components with remanufactured/refurbished equipment. I've never heard of a company doing an RMA then replacing the item with a brand-new part, they've always replaced with remanned stock. This holds true for hard-drives, video cards, laptop parts, motherboards, etc...
thanks.
thedealsnapper
Member
posted: Sep. 4, 2008 @ 12:03p
Pipeline2112 said: DrKlahn said: ..and get a probably refurb drive back.
It's been my experience that the majority of manufacturers will replace components with remanufactured/refurbished equipment. I've never heard of a company doing an RMA then replacing the item with a brand-new part, they've always replaced with remanned stock. This holds true for hard-drives, video cards, laptop parts, motherboards, etc...
thanks.
I just had a PNY 8600GT video card replaced via RMA. PNY sent me a brand new video card, shrink wrapped. It was definitely not a refurb.
thedealsnapper said: Pipeline2112 said: DrKlahn said: ..and get a probably refurb drive back.
It's been my experience that the majority of manufacturers will replace components with remanufactured/refurbished equipment. I've never heard of a company doing an RMA then replacing the item with a brand-new part, they've always replaced with remanned stock. This holds true for hard-drives, video cards, laptop parts, motherboards, etc...
thanks.
I just had a PNY 8600GT video card replaced via RMA. PNY sent me a brand new video card, shrink wrapped. It was definitely not a refurb.I just got back a PNY 7900GS yesterday and it was definitely a refurbished card. The packing list said as much. Just depends on what they have in stock. Usually refurbished parts if availalbe, and that depends on the number of returned parts that are fixable. If the product returns are mostly not fixable, then they'll need more new products to replace them with.
pubenemy
Member
posted: Sep. 4, 2008 @ 4:04p
Ive warrantied WD and seagate drives and always got new stock.
DrKlahn said: Best to read the reviews before buying one of these, imho.
Judging from customer reviews, it appears that any individual drive is either excellent or dog hockey. About 20% of the ~80 reviews indicate problems, with a significant number being DOA or infant mortality.
It *is* an attractive price, and anyone with the guts to buy and hope for a good one might do well. But I wouldn't want to deal with warranty replacement (plus paying the shipping to have their problem fixed!), and get a probably refurb drive back.
My personal impression is that the quality of all IBM / Deskstar / Travelstar drives went significantly down when Hitachi bought the line. When a customer says "What's this SMART error thing?" the drive's usually Hitachi.I would not give a * about Newegg reviews. most DOA HD from them are for their packaging or the lack of it. check ChiefValue, if the price is the same go with them instead, they pack HDs very well.
ketamine said: DrKlahn said: Best to read the reviews before buying one of these, imho.
Judging from customer reviews, it appears that any individual drive is either excellent or dog hockey. About 20% of the ~80 reviews indicate problems, with a significant number being DOA or infant mortality.
It *is* an attractive price, and anyone with the guts to buy and hope for a good one might do well. But I wouldn't want to deal with warranty replacement (plus paying the shipping to have their problem fixed!), and get a probably refurb drive back.
My personal impression is that the quality of all IBM / Deskstar / Travelstar drives went significantly down when Hitachi bought the line. When a customer says "What's this SMART error thing?" the drive's usually Hitachi.I would not give a * about Newegg reviews. most DOA HD from them are for their packaging or the lack of it. check ChiefValue, if the price is the same go with them instead, they pack HDs very well.I thought ChiefValue was just another web frontend for Newegg with slightly different pricing?
scoot said: 6-8 RMAs always a refurb. Mixed mfrsHave always gotten refurbs too. They'll send out a larger size refurb before sending out a new drive of matching size.
SimMike said: pubenemy said: Ive warrantied WD and seagate drives and always got new stock. Seagate is notorious for sending out refurbs to replace failed drives.
If you consider the logic, wouldn't the drive you send in, when repaired, become a refurbished drive if it was then sent back to you anyway? They are doing you a favor when you receive the replacement when you don't have to wait for the actual drive to be repaired...
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