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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

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

www.tomshardware.com

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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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    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.

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    I made a pretty big reddit post about this years ago. It was Seagate drives I was buying too.

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      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

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