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I've recently been browsing Amazon.de listings for a new HDD and I'm pretty sure I saw someone complain about their supposedly new Seagate EXOS already having h
by Hamuko 2y ago
I've recently been browsing Amazon.de listings for a new HDD and I'm pretty sure I saw someone complain about their supposedly new Seagate EXOS already having hours on it.
I also saw listings for SATA drives where the reviews were complaining about receiving SAS drives and complaints about bare HDDs being shipped rattling around in large cardboard boxes. I think the only conclusion I reached was that I should buy my HDD from somewhere that is not Amazon. Impossible to tell if they're selling a new or refurbished drive, a SATA or SAS drive or if it'll make it here safely.
- Cerium 2y agoWhy buy any drives from Amazon? I always buy from a specialty dealer. Where I am that's usually B&H.
- michaelt 2y agoWell you see, the website that lets third parties sell used drives as new always offers the best prices on "new" drives :)
- toast0 2y agoIt's always more exciting to put your important data on a drive that's been shipped in a box that's much too big for it, with much too little packing material.
- Hamuko 2y agoAmazon has usually always been the cheapest option, especially compared to a specialty dealer. Costs add up when you're buying many drives.
- Hizonner 2y agoWhenever I've looked, prices at B&H, or Newegg sold by Newegg, are usually within a few dollars of prices from any Amazon sellers that don't look obviously skeezy. It's a few dollars lower as often as it's a few dollars higher. Except, of course, for the dramatically cheaper drives you find from Amazon... which are definitely going to be used, defective, dropped, or fake. If you get them at all. They all seem to be selling them for very close to what they pay Seagate (or WD or whoever) for them, and the competition between manufacturers probably means there's not a whole lot of room for that price to vary. And I think everything gets repriced pretty frequently whenever anybody's costs move. You can see the prices change at the same time at different sellers. The reason I bought drives from Amazon was that I'd had Newegg delay delivery of an accepted order, and then cancel it for "lack of stock". A few days later Newegg had the same drives listed at a higher price. I assume that what they really meant was "lack of stock of the drives we bought cheaply".
- Hamuko 2y agoNot all of us live in countries with B&H, Newegg, etc.
- Hizonner 2y agoI got a couple of outright counterfeit 12TB Ironwolf drives from "AlamCh Trading Inc" on Amazon a couple of months ago. Slipped up and didn't notice that I was buying from an obviously suspicious seller. They did refund them... after being appropriately threatened.
- nness 2y agoCuriously, how did you identify them as counterfeit? (maybe they were much quieter than normal)
- Hizonner 2y agoThey were physically quite different from some other supposedly "identical" drives I'd just ordered from another source; the actual castings were different (and looked inferior to me). They were also packaged differently (and more cheaply). The real drives have numbered "anti-counterfeit" labels. Each label has a QR code that takes you to a Seagate site, which takes label number X, and tells you that they put that label on drive serial number Y. The fake drives had labels that looked the same, but took you to a generic Seagate support page, nothing specific to anti-counterfeiting. If you went to the real anti-counterfeiting site and entered the numbers from the fake labels, they came up as non-hits. Oh, and on edit, since naming names should go both ways: the "other source" was B&H, which is about as reputable as it's possible to get.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI only buy SSDs from Amazon honestly. Much rather get my hard drive in person, which sucks, most retailers don't have extensive options.