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Difference between OEM Hard Drive and normal Hard Drives?

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They don't have boxes.

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Just the letters OEM. It with less pretty packaging too.

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Packaging is different, and it doesn't come with accessories. Usually it'll say "Bare Drive" in the listing.

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It's the packaging and accessories. Retail drives can come with adapters, cables, and flashier packaging. 

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Just the letters OEM. It with less pretty packaging too.

I thought HDD's didn't have fancy packaging anyways...

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Packaging is different, and it doesn't come with accessories. Usually it'll say "Bare Drive" in the listing.

Expand on 'accessories'

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It's the packaging and accessories. Retail drives can come with adapters, cables, and flashier packaging.

What adapters and cables? Like SATA-Molex?
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What adapters and cables? Like SATA-Molex?

No--stuff like 2.5" to 3.5" adapters and sata cables. 

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No--stuff like 2.5" to 3.5" adapters and sata cables.

Ok thanks :) don't need those anyway!
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What adapters and cables? Like SATA-Molex?

 

Usually when a drive is listed as a "Bare Drive" it will not include power or Sata connectors, or any of the aforementioned adapters.

I don't buy extra drives much but this has been my experience so far.

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Firmware can be different. Most won't notice the difference but firmware from some OEM's firmware is made to work specifically/optimally with their hardware (controllers, disk racks, systems). That being said there are tricks you can do to flash a drive to a normal drive if you happened to find a boat load of OEM drives with firmware made for something else ;)  and vice versa so you can flash a drive generic drive to a OEM firmware (if you can get it) an OEM charges a boat load for.

 

Not that I've ever done that :lol:

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

This is NOT the signature you are looking for.

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