What is the Best Hard Drive?

Lady Fitzgerald said:

WD has to list those stringent packaging requirements to prevent people from shipping a possibly good drive knocking about loose in a flimsy box with inadequate padding, ensuring the HDD will arrive in worse condition than it was when it shipped.

Which is fair enough. :)

Lady Fitzgerald said:

However, I cheated a bit when I returned the WD Green. I arranged for cross shipping. After telling them the SMART attributes causing the warning and they approved an RMA based on that, I had to give them a credit/debit card number, then they immediately shipped me a replacement HDD and put a $125 USD hold on my card (this could be a problem for you if cash is tight; fortunately, I was able to afford it). I tested the replacement drive, then transferred the data on the dying drive to the replacement. I then used WD's packaging they had used to ship the replacement drive to me to send the dying drive back.

Cunning. :)

I was going to say that WD should ship you "appropriate packaging" when they approve your RMA request.

I don't have a credit card and I refuse to tell people my bank account details (if it can be avoided).

BTW, did you notice that in your last Speccy screenshot the HDD temperatures didn't match?

It seems to be a bug in the latest version (v1.28.708).
After I updated to it, I noticed that my HDD temperatures don't match.

I was going to report it, but like most companies these days, you can't even contact Piriform without signing up.

lehnerus2000 said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

WD has to list those stringent packaging requirements to prevent people from shipping a possibly good drive knocking about loose in a flimsy box with inadequate padding, ensuring the HDD will arrive in worse condition than it was when it shipped.

Which is fair enough. :)

Lady Fitzgerald said:

However, I cheated a bit when I returned the WD Green. I arranged for cross shipping. After telling them the SMART attributes causing the warning and they approved an RMA based on that, I had to give them a credit/debit card number, then they immediately shipped me a replacement HDD and put a $125 USD hold on my card (this could be a problem for you if cash is tight; fortunately, I was able to afford it). I tested the replacement drive, then transferred the data on the dying drive to the replacement. I then used WD's packaging they had used to ship the replacement drive to me to send the dying drive back.

Cunning. :)

I was going to say that WD should ship you "appropriate packaging" when they approve your RMA request.

I don't have a credit card and I refuse to tell people my bank account details (if it can be avoided).

BTW, did you notice that in your last Speccy screenshot the HDD temperatures didn't match?

It seems to be a bug in the latest version (v1.28.708).
After I updated to it, I noticed that my HDD temperatures don't match.

I was going to report it, but like most companies these days, you can't even contact Piriform without signing up.

I have a card that is used only for internet purchases. I only put enough money in it to cover purchases I'm going to make and put it there only just before I make the purchase.

I didn't notice the temperature difference on the last screen shot. The curious thing is I made that screen shot back in early November; the latter two I made yesterday. I have updated Speccy once or twice since November. Oh well, it was only a one degree difference, not enough to worry about.