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

[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]

Der Meer-Tor Skandal