How do OC package their Hard Drives ?

garywork

garywork

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I'm hoping its in those clam shell plastic things then in a box padded with foam

or at least a ton of bubble wrap ?

any feedback from recent customers ?

thanks
 
it will be in a box probably around the box that the manufacturer put it in, which is normally a specialised solution as you mentioned above.
 
Packaging is ok for most purposes but not when you have Citylink as your delivery company. Obviously they don't know what's inside the boxes but they treat everything like a delivery of bricks, I shudder every time I see them handling a delivery. That being said my HDD was working fine when delivered. :)
 
Samsung drives come in an anti-static hard plastic clamshell thinggy and the rest in anti-static bags. We wrap these up in lots of bubble wrap to make sure they arrive intact. :)
 
Talrinys said:
I have only ordered 2 harddrives from OcUK and one was defective :/
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Oh no, a defective hard drive. :p

Ordered five hard drives in the last 6 months from OcUK and always arrived well packaged. Bubble wrapped a few times and compact in a box.

I particularly like the Samsung hard shell.
 
Slackworth said:
Samsung drives come in an anti-static hard plastic clamshell thinggy and the rest in anti-static bags. We wrap these up in lots of bubble wrap to make sure they arrive intact. :)
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Yup, got an F1 a month or so ago and it was in a plastic clamshell packet and encased in enough bubblewrap to sink mainland Europe! :p
 
Talrinys said:
I have only ordered 2 harddrives from OcUK and one was defective :/
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Not necessarily down to our packaging. The drives travel thousands of miles and are handled by many before they hit your doorstep so could be any number of things.

Occasionally vendors do get drives that are DOA. Unfortunately for Joe Bloggs, if they receive a faulty drive on first go they may think the drive is crap whereas it could be the best drive even and a simple replacement would solve the issue.

Tute said:
Yup, got an F1 a month or so ago and it was in a plastic clamshell packet and encased in enough bubblewrap to sink mainland Europe! :p
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Excellent :)
 
had 3 laptop drives and 4 or more desk top drives from them over there years all fine and other stuff like 3 monitors and bits never had a problem with packing
 
OCUK do plenty of nice soft airbags in the box usually, I've had 2 bad experiences with DOA disks but I lay the blame purely on city link for them, the second one involved a batch of 6 drives, 5 of which were DOA and had been dropped so hard that the air bags actually burst! (Must have gone out the top floor of a multistorey car park or something...) Still beats a certain deliberately unnamed shop who sent a drive out to one of my housemates in a jiffy bag :o

Even when they do turn up broken I've never had any issues getting them replaced of course :)
 
I was rather unimpressed when I received my 320GB WD scorpio from OCUK. It had fallen out of the bubble wrap they had put it in (well I think it was put in bubble wrap), and was loose in the brown box with my 2.5" icy box.

However when I got two WD 640GB blue a few months later, they were wrapped up in bubble wrap and tape was around it to hold it in place.
 
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