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by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 08:59:06 PM PDT

It's not uncommon to refer to drives sold as bulk or bare drives as OEM, even though they are technically not OEM. True OEM drives are warrantied by the OEM, like a WD drive included in a Dell PC.

If you buy a bare drive from a store like Newegg, you'll get the full warranty provided by the MFR.  For WD drives, that means 3 years for most bare drives, and one year for most retail-boxed drives.

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