German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
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Either Seagate is doing it or all the retailers get them from the same source (which may not be Seagate) that is doing it or is contaminated by fulfillment pooling
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actually the article mentions the smart metrics did not show it. The guy had to use something deeper.
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what do we call this scandal? seagate? seagate...gate?
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The wholesaler where these are shipped from may have bought a large amount of hard drives from China and Co mingled the stock. Most logical explanation.
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Seagate, not the one responsible for this, though. It was the work of shady retailers.
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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.
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yeah but where's the pun in that
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"lightly fucked"
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“Shady German Retailers Spin Refurbished Drives As New”
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Shady German Retailers Spin Refurbished Drives As New gate
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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.
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Sea(gate)^2
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