Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
Originally Posted By: andy
I have never received anything from Amazon that wasn't very well packed.

Nor have I. But apparently hard drives are the exception. Read the Amazon customer reviews on any of their larger hard drives, and the great majority of the bad reviews (1-star and 2-star) express amazement at how badly packaged the drive was and many are not surprised to find their drives DOA. Even the good reviews express gratitude that the drive arrived in working condition despite the packaging.

That surprises me. The last couple HDDs I got from Amazon were packaged in between two plastic pieces that kept the drive suspended and then so many packing peanuts that I couldn't even dig around with a couple fingers without the damn things going everywhere.