[SOLVED] 3.5" Hard Drives with 'bumps' on the side. Is this normal?

[ahmadka]

I recently bought 2x WD Red Plus 8TB NAS hard drives, and while unboxing them I noticed that they have bumps on their sides, of varying intensities. Please take a look at the pictures below. Are these bumps normal, or are these hard drives potentially damaged/defective ? I bought two of them from the same retailer at the same time, and they both have them. Both have one side with more bumps than the other side. Note that I have not actually used them so far in any way yet.

 

[Lutfij]

You'll find them on all 2.5" and 3.5" hard disk drives, even the ones made a decade ago.

 

[USAFRet]

Looking at a 6 year old 500GB WD Green, and a 9 year old 2TB Seagate from my stack of junk...I see similar.

 

[ahmadka]

Okay, thanks for confirming that this isn't an issue !