Where did these HDD's come from?

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Newegg sells them but they are shipped from Advanced Skyline Technology, a refurbisher.  I bought a total of twelve in two separate orders.  The first was 5 pieces and all worked fine.  The second order was for 7 and I found 2 that had problems, and 1 was the wrong drive (SATA 1.5 Gb/sec).  I immediately requested an RMA and Newegg provided free shipping on the 3 returns and I received replacements from AST so all are good now.  I suggest that you test each out after receiving them to make sure they are good.  I use a free program called Crystal Disk Info to test and check the number of hours of use on each.  They vary widely in hours of use.  Also, they are not all WD800AAJS models.  Most of the ones I received are WD800JD models, probably an equivalent? But for the price, I'm very satisfied.  And they have a 90 day warranty.

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