Son has found one vassy, thanks for posting :thumbsup:
S.c.0.TT.y
12 Aug 17#4
Got the 6tb one a few days ago and it arrived damaged.
Dealing with CS seems to be very difficult
Reigan to S.c.0.TT.y
12 Aug 17#6
Digital river is trash, they are like the middleman hope you the best.
tomwatts to S.c.0.TT.y
12 Aug 17#18
Is it still phone only and based in Ireland? When I had problems in the past they were so unhelpful that I sold the faulty one on eBay (as faulty) and vowed to never use them again. Shame as they have some cracking prices
sion22 to S.c.0.TT.y
12 Aug 17#20
same, they will kick you between department saying its not their area
Recertified mean a product has been returned and repaired to the standard and quality of a brand new product. Its certainly should not arrived "knackered and damaged"
All modern hard drive internal and external is SATA based and can be use as internal HDD. none of them comes in native USB interface.
souce:me because i bought the exact same one and using it as internal HDD right now
TheCheapster to S.c.0.TT.y
13 Aug 17#25
I think you'll find the correct term is recertified, not damaged
siqass
12 Aug 17#5
I have experienced the same. It's almost like they hope some customers will keep and not bother returning
Graham1979 to siqass
12 Aug 17#7
People wont be told, just trying to decide if this is the next hysterical wave of posts from people who can't use the search function and think they have stumbled on a yet undiscovered treasure trove of knackered returns or its just some slow posts from the previous wave two weeks ago.
tempt
12 Aug 17#8
Are WD drive more likely to fail and hence the need to refurbish and sell them on?
greencode to tempt
12 Aug 17#9
TBH, I've always purchased WD drives (a mix of new and recertified) over the course of 20+ years and I've only ever had 1 drive fail (out of a lot) so not sure why WD have a refurb store and others don't.
thegamingkinginfo to tempt
12 Aug 17#12
I've had many WD hard drives fail but for me they all seem to be laptop hard drives. I don't need know whether I'm just clumsy with my laptop's or just pure bad luck but 3.5 inch hard drives I've had no problem with. Bought some of these and the smaller external ones before that were recertified and they're still in good condition.
littlejimmy
12 Aug 17#10
What do you think recertified means? Why is literally anyone surprised these are knackered and damaged? Lol
thegamingkinginfo to littlejimmy
12 Aug 17#11
Pretty sure this has been said on every one of these recertified hard drive threads but recertified could just mean customer returns. Whether the speeds were not what a customer wanted, the drive was the wrong size or they didn't know it needed a power supply. There are many reasons aside from failure which results in a return of a product.
Tim2017
12 Aug 17#13
Can you remove the HDD and use it internally?
GoNz0- to Tim2017
12 Aug 17#16
I think this has been asked before and the newer ones (assuming this is) have no sata just a USB interface on the drive, you have to get the network based afaik to have a proper drive.
TheCheapster to Tim2017
12 Aug 17#21
Yes, but you'll have a lot of explaining to do at the airport security scanner
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Dealing with CS seems to be very difficult
Recertified mean a product has been returned and repaired to the standard and quality of a brand new product. Its certainly should not arrived "knackered and damaged"
All modern hard drive internal and external is SATA based and can be use as internal HDD. none of them comes in native USB interface.
souce:me because i bought the exact same one and using it as internal HDD right now
People wont be told, just trying to decide if this is the next hysterical wave of posts from people who can't use the search function and think they have stumbled on a yet undiscovered treasure trove of knackered returns or its just some slow posts from the previous wave two weeks ago.