Delivery man dropped my hard disk...

[cotswoldcs]

I would have to agree with the other comments not to worry. There is a big difference between a hard drive that is unplugged to one powered up and in use. I can't believe how some people treat their laptops these days. I really wouldn't want to take a working, powered up laptop for a walk or subject it to too much movement. But once off you can certainly move them without a worry.

[acrobat]

It's OK, it's a 7200.10, so it'll die within those few months anyway.

If it's OK at the moment, then there's been no damage. It's not going to cause any problems in the future. If things do go dodgy it won't be because of the drop.

Do these drives have a bad reputation? They where everyone's best friend when I was buying them. Infact I even quadruple checked by reading a bunch of reviews online. The general concensus was, faster at most things, ran cooler, more reliable, huge warrenty, win win win. I was determined to buy WD, but I was eventually convinced otherwise.

[amdavies]

Whenever you sign for a delivery, write "unchecked" or "unopened" above your signature.
Also remember that, if any issues arise, the courier company is an agent of the retail company that you ordered that delivery from - so, in essence, the retail company is responsible for the actions of the courier, not you.

[acrobat]

Whenever you sign for a delivery, write "unchecked" or "unopened" above your signature.
Also remember that, if any issues arise, the courier company is an agent of the retail company that you ordered that delivery from - so, in essence, the retail company is responsible for the actions of the courier, not you.

Good advice! Thank you I didn't know that. I will remember it for next time.

Thanks again

[this_is_gav]

Do these drives have a bad reputation?

No idea with the 750giggers, but certainly their 320 and 400gb sisters have been utterly awful.

Both mine died within 4 months, and I'm far from the only one.

I will give them their dues - they are very, very fast for 'only' 7200rpm drives, but that's rather redundant when the % of failures is as bad as it is.

All I'll say is you'd be off your head not to have a regular backup - but then you would be anyway if you were risking 700+gb of data, no matter what the drive.

[kalniel]

i based my statement on my beloved samsung p-series spinpoints

Yup, top drives that I've recommended to others as well

But I took a guess that his was going to be a seagate at that size, and I'm happy with my 320gb 7200.10 as well (which is 350G)

[Mithrandir]

I've always been wary of how the packages are handled from leaving the retailers to your doorstep. tbh the people who work at depots, etc couldn't care less about these packages, and Im sure they do get chucked around a lot.

However, I do think the retailer do need to package the products sufficiently though.

Also my understanding is that the reading arm of hard drives lock into place when not powered up (well at least from what I hear about laptop drive)

[kalniel]

They do these days.

In the old days you had to specifically park hard drive heads before you physically moved the computer.

[dangel]

No idea with the 750giggers, but certainly their 320 and 400gb sisters have been utterly awful.

Both mine died within 4 months, and I'm far from the only one.

I will give them their dues - they are very, very fast for 'only' 7200rpm drives, but that's rather redundant when the % of failures is as bad as it is.

All I'll say is you'd be off your head not to have a regular backup - but then you would be anyway if you were risking 700+gb of data, no matter what the drive.

Well, touch wood (scratches head), my two 320's haven't missed a beat yet - although i do have a 500gig 7200.9 that i use for backups.

[Lee H]

Acrobat

Can you please PM me your order/invoice number so we can add some notes to the system as to what happened when the delivery was made.

Best Regards,

[GoNz0]

heads were parked so it cant really damage it if its in its packaging. dont worry about it. packaging is designed so as ****y link can play football with it !

[moogle]

heads were parked so it cant really damage it if its in its packaging. dont worry about it. packaging is designed so as ****y link can play football with it !

lol, are they that bad?
at least they allow scan to offer free delivery

[SiM]

Scan are taking note of this!!! Well done acrobat you have got the poor delivery man in trouble now...

lol, are they that bad?
at least they allow scan to offer free delivery

Well scan actually pay the delivery... theres no city link allowing involved

[acrobat]

Acrobat

Can you please PM me your order/invoice number so we can add some notes to the system as to what happened when the delivery was made.

Best Regards,

Ok, thank you, thats great I didn't actually want to complain or anything but that would be a good idea I suppose, to atleast have it on record, incase something does happen to the drive. I will send it by PM in 2 secs.

No idea with the 750giggers, but certainly their 320 and 400gb sisters have been utterly awful.

Both mine died within 4 months, and I'm far from the only one.

I will give them their dues - they are very, very fast for 'only' 7200rpm drives, but that's rather redundant when the % of failures is as bad as it is.

All I'll say is you'd be off your head not to have a regular backup - but then you would be anyway if you were risking 700+gb of data, no matter what the drive.

crap

All my drives are Seagate Barracuda. The main two are the 320 gigs I got two so I could keep the main one mirrored onto the second. The third one is the 750gig, and because its so big, I won't be able to backup anything off that.

If these drives are as unreliable as your experience of them, I could be in trouble (((((

Scan are taking note of this!!! Well done acrobat you have got the poor delivery man in trouble now...

Yikes lol... he was a big guy too I didn't realise scan read these threads.. Oh well. He still shouldn't have done that so whatever. Bring it on

Well scan actually pay the delivery... theres no city link allowing involved

Whats this talk of free delivery by the way? Everything I've bought recently, I've had to pay delivery on Infact, I bought something else with the hard disk, and it cost £10 but the delivery was an extra £5 So the delivery cost added another 50% on to the price basically

Oh well.

[this_is_gav]

Whats this talk of free delivery by the way? Everything I've bought recently, I've had to pay delivery on Infact, I bought something else with the hard disk, and it cost £10 but the delivery was an extra £5 So the delivery cost added another 50% on to the price basically

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Wouldn't have helped with that £10 order though - only applies to orders of £20 or over.

[acrobat]

Ahhh thanks mate.

I did know about that but I could never figure it out last time I tried I can't remember exactly, but it required some kind of number from this site I think (in my user profile or something), and when I typed that in to scan, it didn't work.

I will give it another go next time I order something though. I bookmarked both those links