Well, Ken.. if it makes you feel any better, one of my guys ordered a lot of 10 or 12 hard drives... (partially to pay me back, he keeps stealing them from the spares cupboard at the office when he needs one for a project)... all of them were defective, 2 would spin up and that was it... the others were absolutely DOA... after some doing, the seller refunded his money, and he gave the drives to me, so I stripped all the magnets out of them, they'll come in handy eventually I think.

Bren R.