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La question
Le lecteur superutilisateur Pankhuri Gupta souhaite en savoir plus sur les disques durs "Bare" et "OEM":
I am looking for a new internal hard-drive for my laptop and found terms like ‘Bare’ hard-drive and ‘OEM’ hard-drive when looking online.
I researched the terms and found that ‘bare’ hard-drives do not come with cables or manuals. But I am still confused about one thing. Do they have the connector chip on them? Everywhere I looked online I saw images of ‘bare’ hard-drives displayed with exposed spindles and platters.
I do not believe that I will need any cables or other ‘accessory’ parts to replace the old hard-drive in my laptop.
Qu'est-ce que vous obtenez réellement avec un disque dur «nu» ou «OEM»?
La réponse
Les contributeurs de SuperUser Journeyman Geek et Fiasco Labs ont la solution pour nous. Tout d'abord, compagnon geek:
There is little practical difference between a retail or ‘OEM’ hard-drive for consumer systems. For the same model, it is the same exact hard-drive with all the relevant internal parts needed to make it function. In general, such hard-drives are primarily marketed at system builders who would rather get a padded box of hard-drives with just the necessary packaging.
In general, OEM packaging looks like this:
Hard-drives absolutely do not ship with exposed platters.
Depending on the type of hard-drive and the SKU, you may get some additional literature (like manuals), a SATA cable, or in the case of some SSDs, a ‘migration kit’ that would let you hook up your hard-drive over USB, image it, and then swap hard-drives.
I would also add that if it is a pre-built computer (or server in some cases), replacing the ‘OEM’ hard-drive that came standard in it with your own hard-drive (‘OEM’ or otherwise) may void the warranty. Some may also have specific firmware versions or be branded to the system builder.
Suivi de la réponse de Fiasco Labs:
‘Bare’ means a hard-drive in a manufacturer’s sealed anti-static bag (for all the vendors I have ever bought a hard-drive from). As long as it is properly packaged against g-forces, you are good to go.
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