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

[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]

Der Meer-Tor Skandal

[orangenkuchen@lemmy.world]

There are programs that can check such things as runtime, wear (...).

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

I had to send a Barracuda drive back recently.

"It's fine" said Seagate's SMART analysis tools.

"Clunk clunk clunk clonk" said the HDD.

I know which of those results I trusted more.

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

There are several programs that can check for disk info (S.M.A.R.T), so I'll lay out some options for you

CrystalDiskInfo is free to use on Windows

For Linux, you can choose something from the list here depending on preferences like your current desktop environment

For MacOS (where realistically you'd be doing this for an external drive as I believe they don't show you much or anything at all on modern internal drives) you can get a free trial of DriveDX. There are probably other programs you can use for free, but if you only need to do it once, just get that because it does a really good job of letting you know what's up. Just visualizes things in an easily newbie-understandable way.

[spacecadet@feddit.nl]

Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they're coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

I only wanted it for a Jellyfin drive. The one thing it could have been useful for and it even failed at that.

Seems like you need to pay the extra for an Ironwolf drive to get an actual "just like the good old days" HDD.

[anunusualrelic@lemmy.world]

It may depend on the level of "refurbishing" that's been done, but I don't believe that's a very good idea.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

Landlord just got me a new washing machine. I’ve been burning it in since Sunday.