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

schizoidman@lemm.ee · 15 hours ago

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

finley@lemm.ee · edit-2 15 hours ago

Because they can get away with it due to the fact that most people don’t know how to view the “hours powered on” information or other SMART diagnostic output.

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 14 hours ago

actually the article mentions the smart metrics did not show it. The guy had to use something deeper.

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 14 hours ago

SMART data is reset by a lot of refurbished HDDs, but then you usually KNOW that they are refurbished