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
www.tomshardware.com German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
The plot thickens.
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I’ve sworn off Seagate for any spinning rust. I’ve had far too many drives fail within a few months - including the warranty replacement drives - for me to ever trust any data to them again.
I made a pretty big reddit post about this years ago. It was Seagate drives I was buying too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/k4rc7a/psa_dont_buy_new_hard_drives_from_ebay_theyre/
Found it. You can smell old reddit in there