Yes, THREW. I heard a thud as it hit my door and it was loud enough to get my dog barking.

Thanks delivery person, very cool. I hope that when someone else is delivering your expensive fragile items, they’re gentle with it so you don’t have to go through the anxiety of not knowing whether the hard drive you bought SPECIFICALLY as a long term offline backup might be damaged and unreliable before a single file has been backed up to it.

Like, if it was straight up broken after this, that would be preferable because if it breaks in a year or so, not only do you lose your data (potentially finding out only after your server’s main drive also broke and you’re trying to recover from your backup), and the website won’t refund you because they won’t believe that it broke because the person who delivered it mishandled it.

So again, thank you delivery person for making my digital life that much spicier for no reason. Hope you enjoyed those extra two seconds you saved knowing it’s not your hard drive or data. Also thank you for not even ringing my doorbell presumably because you didn’t want to be confronted by the new owner of the product you potentially broke. Or maybe you wanted to give the package thieves a fair chance at getting it before I did.

Incidentally, does anyone know how I can check the drive for potential damage? I’m currently doing a SMART long test which says it will take over 24 hours. How good is SMART at detecting physical damage as opposed to the drive aging?

    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      28 days ago

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      This is the shit I have to put up with

      Nothing is more important to people with the means to order “expensive fragile items” than their interactions with the people who serve them

      It is literally the entire outside world by their perception

      • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        27 days ago

        I would also like to say that I tried to find it locally but almost no store near me carries high capacity drives and when they do, they’re significantly more expensive than online. Ordering online was not my first choice and I don’t know how it ends up cheaper than buying from a physical store.

        I’m definitely still privileged and can’t really judge someone for trying to shave time off their deliveries to meet quota, I agree with you on that.