Buying new HD, why no cover in pictures?

holystungun9 · 19-05-2011 10:53PM #1

Hey, I am going to buy a new hd for my laptop, probably a Western Digital 320gig 7200 rpm. Anyway, regardless of which one, when I look at websites and search for internal 2.5. hard drive, all the pictures show the disks exposed in the hard drives. Is this how you get them? Surely it is a sealed unit, i.e., you can't go poking at the actual disks as you as you put the unit in. Is the cover separate? I just want to make sure any drive I get can be just popped in as is, not have to take a cover off the old one to put on new one or something. Thanks for any help.

mordeith · 20-05-2011 10:00AM

You mean the platter is shown exposed? Never seen that before. All drives come as sealed units that you just pop in to your laptop.

holystungun9 · 20-05-2011 10:04AM

mordeith wrote: »

You mean the platter is shown exposed? Never seen that before. All drives come as sealed units that you just pop in to your laptop.

Yeah, if you look on Dabs.ie or Komplett.ie they show the platters exposed on all HDDs. Not sure why they do this cos I believe they are sealed units like you said. Oh well, I'll just go ahead and order. Maybe it is to visually show a unit is a platter based drive and not an ssd.

mordeith · 20-05-2011 10:21AM

Oy yeah, I see what you mean. It's just for illustration purposes. I ordered a WD 2.5 internal recently off dabs and I can assure you it comes with a cover

Buying new HD, why no cover in pictures?

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