Re: should I expect hard drive trouble?

2014-08-07 Thread LuKreme
On 06 Aug 2014, at 09:55 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, I recently bought a pair of internal 4-TB hard drives from an online vendor. It looks like they probably bounced around a lot during shipping. Should I expect problems? That is, if they don't

should I expect hard drive trouble?

2014-08-06 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi, I recently bought a pair of internal 4-TB hard drives from an online vendor. It looks like they probably bounced around a lot during shipping. Should I expect problems? That is, if they don't work right from the start, then obviously I should get them replaced. But what if they seem to

Re: should I expect hard drive trouble?

2014-08-06 Thread Arno Hautala
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I recently bought a pair of internal 4-TB hard drives from an online vendor. It looks like they probably bounced around a lot during shipping. Should I expect problems? What evedice is there that they

Re: should I expect hard drive trouble?

2014-08-06 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
I'm sure I am worrying needlessly, but I just thought I'd ask. The drives are encased in plastic, but the plastic containers were then placed in over-sized boxes with only a few of those inflatable balloons around it. The drives looks well protected, but the plastic containers looked like they