[Chopxsticks]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16822152185R

$40 for a samsung spinpoint F3 1TB ??? Anyone know how open box works? I could really use a hard drive.

 

[badreligion156]

open box are items that have been returned for one reason or another. I really wouldnt take your chance with hard drives as they may have suffered severe damage and were returned or they just never worked to begin with.

I bought a killer mobo open box for about the same price only to find out it was severely damaged and I actually had to pay newegg back some money to have it returned... :[

 

[Chopxsticks]

sorry to hear

I purchased an open box mobo for a friends build and it worked fine. I was just a little concerned with open box HDD, neweggs site sayd limit 5, so makes me wonder how many are open... Im also looking into an open box Monitor, god im so cheap

 

[Kramy]

Newegg apparently ships all RMA'd stuff back to the manufacturer.

To end up "Open Box" on newegg, it probably has to be tested okay - but their testing may not be thorough, so it could still be defective.

Ex: Some F3's have bad firmware which doesn't work with all boards. A lot of AMD boards in particular. Some drives have performance issues - others just plain don't show up in the BIOS.

If the drive got sent back to Samsung, they tested it on an Intel system and it worked, they'd mark it okay and let newegg sell it Open Box. Now if it had that particular issue, and you buy it and try it on an AMD motherboard, it'll be "DOA".

I generally avoid OpenBox items.

 

[pistons50]

HDD are already barebones anyways so an open box hdd is basically just an amazing deal. I never had a problem with one and hdd are the best items to get open box.

 

[Deegan]

even with open box you have 14 days to return. ive never had 1 problem with open box items so far. i would say ive had at least 50 open box items so far and all worked they way they were suposed to. maybe im just lucky.

 

[Somenamehere]

Really hovering over the buy button for 5 of these ....

 

[GeneralCuster44]

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Originally Posted by pistons50 HDD are already barebones anyways so an open box hdd is basically just an amazing deal. I never had a problem with one and hdd are the best items to get open box.

word up to this

 

[Deegan]

dude lol get all 5

 

[ghettogeddy]

i was looking at this earlier as im building an external hdd but i cant afford it atm

 

[pistons50]

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Originally Posted by ghettogeddy i was looking at this earlier as im building an external hdd but i cant afford it atm

Your building one? If you have a hdd already they already have cheap enclosures that are nice.

 

[ghettogeddy]

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Originally Posted by pistons50 Your building one? If you have a hdd already they already have cheap enclosures that are nice.

no i just got a encloser off mwave for 8 bucks just need a drive to do it now lol f3 will be the drive just have to wait