German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
The plot thickens.
I just buy refurbished/refreshed drives intentionally. Recently picked up a 20tb drive for just under $200, and get a 5 year warranty with them too.
I owned a Xbox branded HDD that stopped working after 60 days. It was exactly 61 days. I had tried to get a refund at Best Buy where I bought it and they refused because their return policy said 60 days.
I simply refuse to purchase a Seagate product ever again.
Guessing this wasn't in Europe. Consumer protection laws actually do stuff over here. Goods must be fit for purpose, and there's no fixed limit for how long that is. A refund after two years wouldn't be unreasonable for a hard drive and likely to succeed.
wasn't in the US New England area either, we have consumer protections that block that type of fraud here.
You know that drive has a 1 year warranty, right?
HDDs have a bathtub failure curve no matter who makes them.
That is fucked up.
I don't think I've ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I've been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.
When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.
They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.
I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.
Yep I have a Seagate array and a HGST array and a WD array, and they've got 50k hours and are all fine (he said knocking on wood)
So if seagate isn’t an option, and WD isn’t an option because of the SMR bait and switch, what hard drives are recommended?
Most high capacity drives are CMR, if that helps.
https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/#WD_CMR_SMR_drive_list
Compare this with Backblaze drive stats to get a reliable product:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/
Drives failures vary by model number more than by manufacturer. Buy seller refurbished drives from serverpartdeals if you don't want the companies to get your money.
isn't that on the retailers though?
wtf The issue appears widespread, involving multiple retailers, including Amazon.
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Much like how the current German government is just resold, used Nazi Germany
If you mean the AfD which are actual Nazis, they never had power yet but gain much more traction recently sadly. Even Elon Musk loves AfD but he a Nazi too, so no wonder things gained traction with his twitter/X.
Everything that were in government, was pretty left wing except the CDU which was.. well they were lobbyistic but not that far right. But today they are.