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Don't Buy OEM Hard Drives Unless You Have More Time Than Money

By Neil Squillante

Earlier this year we bought four 1 TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives for our new server for $211 each ? a great price at the time. How did we get this price? We bought OEM drives. When companies like Dell buy hard drives, they buy them by the thousands. The drives don't come individually packaged as they do at your local superstore (just imagine the outcry from environmental activists if they did). Instead, they come in volume packaging. Nowadays, anyone can buy OEM drives from online retailers. But few of us can buy enough of them to receive the original crate from the factory as Dell does. Instead, retailers uncrate these hard drives and resell them individually using their own packaging. The risk of physical damage significantly increases as a result...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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