Amazon does ship these well packaged, and take very good care of their customers.

It came on time and very well packaged.

The drive was well packaged arrived a day ahead of the quoted delivery date.

The drive arrived as OEM in an anti static bag, packaging was great.

Not as fast as

When not using A/C idle temps are 43-44 C but when A/C on it goes below 40

Using large files and 64K sectors it will make seek times faster without working out the drive, plus it will also minimize fragmentation on the drive to almost nothing, however if you are storing lots of files smaller than 10GB then from 4-8GB range you should select 4096 and respectfully for mass amounts of photos you should select 512 or you will waste lots of space on this drive using 64K for random file types,sizes,etc

Not as fast as