[plug] WD drives coming formatted as NTFS?

[Ari]

Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> Might not these drives have been recovered stock from a batch of drives
> set up for PC installation that never made it in the run.  Therefore
> they would have been bulk copied but never actually used.  They would
> have been sold off cheap and presumably bought cheap, with free mounting
> brackets.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with that, so long as there wasn't deceptive
> practice.
>
> Kevin
>
>   

There was nothing to mention that the drives were not absolutely brand 
new. Certainly no mounting brackets. I thought it odd that they weren't 
in static bags, but I've had some manufacturers do that in the past with 
drives that were brand new. This is well known retailer with a range of 
drives from a variety of manufacturers.

> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 07:59 +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
>   
>> You've stated that the drives were in Samsung plastic shells? This is an
>> indication that they may have been used.
>>     
>>>> On 24 Oct 2009 at 23:11, Ari wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would say that the drives are not 'brand' new, the "System
>>>> Volume Information" directory is where a Windows operating system stores
>>>> all the data it needs to create "Restore Points" in order to allow for
>>>> rolling back a corrupted system to a previously good working condition.
>>>>
>>>>         
>
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