Sylence Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 What are the these black circles for on WD HDDs? and some WD Black edition HDDs with exactly the same model as those having black circles, don't have these circles on them. is it something to be worried about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 first one is a dalmatian. no, seriously, those are pressure pads. where the robots are supposed to touch the disk while assembling it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davmil Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Not to worry. Difference in production batches between countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 On 1/12/2016 at 10:52 AM, VileTouch said: fist one is a dalmatian. no, seriously, those are pressure pads. where the robots are supposed to touch the disk while assembling it Expand Oh i see, thanks On 1/12/2016 at 10:53 AM, davmil said: Not to worry. Difference in production batches between countries. Expand Yes thanks so i won't send it back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 On 1/12/2016 at 10:52 AM, VileTouch said: first one is a dalmatian. no, seriously, those are pressure pads. where the robots are supposed to touch the disk while assembling it Expand Do you have any proof for your statements? because I have some that says something else This PDF by western digital: http://support.wdc.com/Warranty/WDVMISPEC.pdf it specifies what constitutes a tampered drive for warranty purposes, specifically page 7, the image in the bottom right corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 On 1/22/2016 at 2:42 PM, saeed_dc said: Do you have any proof for your statements? because I have some that says something else This PDF by western digital: http://support.wdc.com/Warranty/WDVMISPEC.pdf it specifies what constitutes a tampered drive for warranty purposes, specifically page 7, the image in the bottom right corner. Expand the ones in the video are different color, but it's the same function. anyway, is there anything wrong with the disk, other than the stickers? s.m.a.r.t. show any problems?. if not i don't see a reason to return it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 On 1/22/2016 at 7:40 PM, VileTouch said: the ones in the video are different color, but it's the same function. anyway, is there anything wrong with the disk, other than the stickers? s.m.a.r.t. show any problems?. if not i don't see a reason to return it. Expand SMART shows no problem so you're saying that WD company in Thailand doesn't use robots to assemble hard disks! which is weird because these workers shown in the video seem to be Asian too the plot thickens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 On 1/22/2016 at 8:39 PM, saeed_dc said: SMART shows no problem so you're saying that WD company in Thailand doesn't use robots to assemble hard disks! which is weird because these workers shown in the video seem to be Asian too the plot thickens... Expand the word "robot" is used 9 times in the video. it might or might not mean that at least some of those workers aren't really human O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 On 1/22/2016 at 8:56 PM, VileTouch said: the word "robot" is used 9 times in the video. it might or might not mean that at least some of those workers aren't really human O.o Expand Yes that's what i'm saying. my hard disk is made in Thailand and this company and its human workers and robots seem to be in Thailand as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURbit Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Reach out to support at WD, at the least have a supervisor confirm your questions, remembering to get their name and employee number, ask if the conversation can be Tran scripted and mailed to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibranium Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 One good way is to check the warranty status. Although very unlikely, it is possible to buy a FAKE hard disk. It happened to me. I spotted the fake and got a refund. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 On 1/22/2016 at 9:37 PM, SURbit said: Reach out to support at WD, at the least have a supervisor confirm your questions, remembering to get their name and employee number, ask if the conversation can be Tran scripted and mailed to you. Expand Okay I will do that, it's the only way to find out what's going on I guess but I'm worried that will be too much to ask On 1/23/2016 at 12:40 AM, vibranium said: One good way is to check the warranty status. Although very unlikely, it is possible to buy a FAKE hard disk. It happened to me. I spotted the fake and got a refund. Expand I checked its guarantee status with the company and it was good, let me check the warranty status as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 On 1/23/2016 at 12:40 AM, vibranium said: One good way is to check the warranty status. Although very unlikely, it is possible to buy a FAKE hard disk. It happened to me. I spotted the fake and got a refund. Expand it identifies the serial number but i don't understand the out of region part ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibranium Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Out of region = the warranty is covered in a different country or region. This usually means that the disk you bought was not imported by an official country distributor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 On 1/23/2016 at 4:18 PM, vibranium said: Out of region = the warranty is covered in a different country or region. This usually means that the disk you bought was not imported by an official country distributor. Expand Well that's not surprising. so nothing fake then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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