Originally Posted By: tfabris
How do you purchase them?


Over the counter, from either of two large computer retailers in town. They receive them in larger boxes of 50/100 drives, packed at the drive manufacturing factories. The boxes being larger, they're much harder for the UPS grunt to throw around from truck to truck, and the heavier boxes (heavier packing, heavier payload) have a lot more vibration resistance.

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