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

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

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

[jasondj@lemmy.zip]

I can tell your lieing, because your pants are on fire.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

Since the other answer is desktop use, if in Linux your best bet is smartctl.

[chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net]

Just don’t buy Seagate. Their drives consistently have the highest annualized failure rate on Backblaze reports ( https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/6-AFR-by-Manufacturer.png ), and is consistent with my experience in small anecdotal sample of roughly 30 drives. This results in a ripple effect where the failed drive adds more work to the other drives (array rebuild after replacement), thereby increasing their risk of failing, too.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

No no, that was the old washer setting pants on fire.

[sik0fewl@lemmy.ca]

What do you recommend instead?

[dozzi92@lemmy.world]

My parents bought a beach house (a bungalow on a postage stamp, before anyone gets an ideas that we're some 1%ers) and it came with an old washer dryer. My old man put a single pair of jeans in the dryer and seemingly forgot about them. He says he did it for a timer. Leaves the house. Nobody there for a week. My mom comes in, dryer still running, jeans essentially translucent at this point. One of the things you can laugh at only because it wasn't a tragedy.

[sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Western Digital used to be great. Don't know if they still are. I never had an issue with any of my HDDs from them (I only ever bought the high end stuff though)

[ataridump@lemmy.world]

I do; I use a four pass destructive run of badblocks on new drives before implementing them.

[ataridump@lemmy.world]

…when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

And had a five year warranty.