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OEM "Bare Drive"

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2 comments, last by daviangel 14 years, 9 months ago
This is probably a stupid question but... Is this hard drive left open, with the expectation that I somehow cover up the insides? I am used to them looking more like this, without the guts showing.
--- krez ([email="krez_AT_optonline_DOT_net"]krez_AT_optonline_DOT_net[/email])
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The image will just be for illustration purposes. Once the drive is open like that, it's effectively wrecked unless it's done in a hardware clear room.
That's what I thought but I'd hate to spend money and find out I need parts and skills I don't have.

Thanks!
--- krez ([email="krez_AT_optonline_DOT_net"]krez_AT_optonline_DOT_net[/email])
Quote: Original post by krez
That's what I thought but I'd hate to spend money and find out I need parts and skills I don't have.

Thanks!

LOL!
I've never given a 2nd thought about how online retailers display images of harddrives but if you take it literally, yeah you'd be recieving a wrecked drive if it came like that LOL!
I'm guessing someone in marketing decided showing the outside of a drive wasn't very exciting or sexy hence the common practice of showing the guts of harddrives instead.
Only drive that ever came like that, showing the insides, was the raptor x which isn't made anymore :(
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