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Amazon is also a pretty terrible place to buy computer hardware, especially with their track record of shipping terribly-packed hard drives.

The benefit of Amazon, at least in the UK, is they will take a return for basically any reason regardless of whether its been opened or not.

> The benefit of Amazon, at least in the UK, is they will take a return for basically any reason regardless of whether its been opened or not.

Then they package the returned drive correctly and send to you, where it dies 5 months after warranty ended.

And outright counterfeits.