Why not get HDD OEM?

[Garfield]

I was on newegg.com and their OEM drives are about $80 for a 40gig and I was looking at a shopping newpaper (I think Office Max) and they were charging $120 for the same drive. Of course, they are selling retail, as opposed to OEM.

But, besides warranty, why would you buy a hard drive RETAIL?

[scoobydoo]

For the box of course:)

[Garfield]

Originally posted by scoobydoo
For the box of course:)

Seriously? :D

[cjlax5]

ya, pretty much, there is really no preformance diffrence, the retail comes with ATA100 Cables, but so do motherboard, retail has a manual, thats about it, i would pay and extra for retail, o, and retail sometimes has a manufacture warrenty that u dont get w/ oem drives

[Yodums]

The OEM may come with months of waranty and it just comes to you in an anti static bag.

Where retail is where it's in the box packaged with manuals and cable and probably a 3 year waranty.

Yodums

[abb1]

Actually, I have had three Hard drives die on me in the past and I had no problems with warranties. They all were OEM's. Every hard drive I have ever bought was an OEM. I refuse to pay extra money for a cable, instructions (which no one should need), and a pretty box that is going right in the garbage.
Abb

[Jon]

I agree here. Seems as if OEM hard drives are a bit different than OEM CPUs.

All of the hard drives I have, except for 2 or 3, are OEM and all carry full manufacturer's warranties.

I'll admit I don't bother buying them retail either unless there's a deal going on where I can get it at same cost. I have more cables and drive rails than I know what to do with anyway.