Retail or OEM HDD... what's the difference?

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  1. eddie456

    eddie456 Regular member

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    I was just wondering.. What does the retail version have that the OEM doesn't?? I was thinking on getting a 500Gb Western Digital Hard Drive.. Does it make a difference...?
     
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    the retail comes with a sata cable, a longer warranty and a nice box. oem comes wrapped in antistatic bubble wrap with nothing else. the advantage of oem is that is is cheaper. i buy all my drives oem.
     
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    But don't you need the sata cable...?
     
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    Yes, but people building new PCs also get new motherboards, and motherboards come with free S-ATA cables, so they don't need any to come with the hard drive.
     
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    OMG that helped a lot... thank you very much :)
     
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