RMA Day

Jason Tucker

Jan 25, 2005 — 1 min read

So I have this dead 120gb ATA hardrive that I wanted to use on my xbox but the harddrive is dead. I went on hitachi’s website and did an online RMA request. The drive was approved for RMA so now i needed to find a box to ship it in….

So I looked in the “graveyard” at work and found an old harddrive box (with foam core and electrostatic bag) but the funny thing is the box is a Maxtor box and well, its for a 4.3GB drive. heheh 4.3 man that some old shit! Hopefully the RMA guys dont send me some small drive like that.

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