German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours

[maggiwuerze@feddit.org]

SMART data is reset by a lot of refurbished HDDs, but then you usually KNOW that they are refurbished

[finley@lemm.ee]

Seagate, not the one responsible for this, though. It was the work of shady retailers.

[dudewitbow@lemmy.zip]

they confirmed they were refurbished, as well as the drives were OEM drives (meaning different warranty) so the problem is that someone 100% has a mixed assortment of storage. whether that was on Seagates end or the retailers end (more likely imo to be on the retailers end, as Seagate has their own refurbished drive market they run, and would only be a seagate problem if someone mistakingly shipped a bunch to a retailer) as they are their own source and is not affected by other sources.

[_netnomad@fedia.io]

yeah but where's the pun in that

[mlg@lemmy.world]

PSA to always run a full length SMART check for any drives you buy, even from OEM. The short test and log are not enough, I have bought faulty drives that someone had reset the logs and power on hours.

All passed short SMART test, but failed long SMART test after only a few minutes. Found just one drive that the skrub forgot to wipe and the log showed 6 continuous years of power on usage.

Even from OEM, you will at least know if the hardware is DOA which you can then RMA.

[surewhynotlem@lemmy.world]

Seetor-gate. Because it's German

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

"lightly fucked"

[finley@lemm.ee]

“Shady German Retailers Spin Refurbished Drives As New”

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

Shady German Retailers Spin Refurbished Drives As New gate

[beardedgingerwonder@feddit.uk]

Secondary PSA Seagate use some godawful numbering scheme on their SMART results, if you're not aware of the fact you need a calculator understand the raw error count it will freak you the fuck out.

[illi@lemm.ee]

Sea(gate)^2

[jasondj@lemmy.zip]

Probably performs a good burn-in for them too.

Do people still do that? Used to be common practice to power on equipment and let it sit, either idle or full-tilt, for a couple days before even starting to configure it.

[evacuatesoul@lemmy.world]

Never heard of that, interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-in

[rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world]

Accoirding to TFA these drives all passed SMART tests.

[maplebar@lemmy.world]

How does one test for this?

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

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