What is it with shipping hard drives?

[Black]

The ony time I ever received a DOA hard drive it was from Newegg.

[OWC Jamie]

The inner box is properly packaged ?

How is that any different than the small package alone sliding around on the UPS truck shelf ?
Or thrown from one end of the trailer to the other ?


A non-crushed empty outer box would be evidence of rather well handled, actually. At least in terms of being crushed and maybe kicked / tossed / throw around.

[Robert M]

C(-)ris,

I disagreed with you before but now I take it to an entirely new level. My company ships brass components that are less fragile than a hard disk drive. They get damaged when shipped with insufficient packaging materials. A hard disk drive is far more fragile than these components and that's on top of being a precision assembly. If my brass components can be damaged in transit due to insufficient packaging, then there is absolutely no doubt in my mind a hard disk drive will suffer from it, too.

Robert

[kj4btkljv]

I occasionally buy drives from Newegg, and have had the "drive rattling around inside of an empty box" scenario many times. I had to send 3 of 12 back because they were too banged up to spin/boot up properly.

Now, just last week I needed to order a couple more drives, and the thought crossed my mind of whether I should order from Newegg again or not. I did anyway.

The 2 drives this time came with bubble wrap, inside a box, sitting in a small mound of paper padding. Completely different than any other time I have ordered a drive.

So, something has changed, hopefully it will be permanent.

Jeff

[Racer X]

billb wrote:
The inner box is properly packaged ?

How is that any different than the small package alone sliding around on the UPS truck shelf ?
Or thrown from one end of the trailer to the other ?


A non-crushed empty outer box would be evidence of rather well handled, actually. At least in terms of being crushed and maybe kicked / tossed / throw around.

OK, so go grab a newborn, shake him violently, but not actually leave any marks on his head. Let's see how well his brain works as he ages.

No marks doesn't mean a thing.

[OWC Jamie]

Racer X wrote:
[quote=billb]
The inner box is properly packaged ?

How is that any different than the small package alone sliding around on the UPS truck shelf ?
Or thrown from one end of the trailer to the other ?


A non-crushed empty outer box would be evidence of rather well handled, actually. At least in terms of being crushed and maybe kicked / tossed / throw around.

OK, so go grab a newborn, shake him violently, but not actually leave any marks on his head. Let's see how well his brain works as he ages.

No marks doesn't mean a thing.

OK, I'll ask again, Is the inner package properly packaged to protect the child ?



A properly protected package inside a box, inside a box, inside a box, inside a box is just going to thump a lot when it moves and do absolutely nothing when it doesn't.

[OWC Jamie]

billb wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
[quote=billb]
The inner box is properly packaged ?

How is that any different than the small package alone sliding around on the UPS truck shelf ?
Or thrown from one end of the trailer to the other ?


A non-crushed empty outer box would be evidence of rather well handled, actually. At least in terms of being crushed and maybe kicked / tossed / throw around.

OK, so go grab a newborn, shake him violently, but not actually leave any marks on his head. Let's see how well his brain works as he ages.

No marks doesn't mean a thing.

OK, I'll ask again, Is the inner package properly packaged to protect the child ?



A properly protected package inside a box, inside a box, inside a box, inside a box is just going to thump a lot when it moves and do absolutely nothing when it doesn't.

Edit: The OP doesn't say a bare drive in a big old empty box, he says a drive in a box inside a box.
Hence the question regarding the proper protection of the inner package.

Completely different physics involved between the two scenarios.

[JoeH]

All of the "bare drive" boxes I have seen are just your basic slip box. Just big enough to slip in a drive in its anti-static wrapper and no padding.

[OWC Jamie]

JoeH wrote:
All of the "bare drive" boxes I have seen are just your basic slip box. Just big enough to slip in a drive in its anti-static wrapper and no padding.

Which is why I asked: all the drives and ram I've gotten from Newegg have been shipped as described - not the greatest packaging, but the inner box should have survived on its own. Seemed like a total waste of an outer box to me.

[Trouble]

M A V I C wrote:
Never received a drive from Newegg like that. It's usually wrapped in bubble wrap.

Same here. Never gotten a bare hard drive packed loose in another box.