My packaging wasn't as great. I don't trust any of the drives considering how smashed up the cardboard is on all the edges, even the spine in the middle is shifted at different locations.
Oh so we know who was the guy who bought the rest of the stock
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But yeah that's a worse packing job for two dozen drives than for a single.
I got my (single) drive yesterday. It was fairly generously bubble wrapped. It is currently running it's badblocks pass.
like others, it showed it was manufactured about a year and a half ago, only on for around 48 power on hours, and this one had, if I believe smartctl, about 48TB written to it.
Also, mine included a paper drive erasure printout, have other people had those?
I really wonder what the story was behind these drives.