schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1329arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
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minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·8 days agoactually the article mentions the smart metrics did not show it. The guy had to use something deeper.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 days agoSMART data is reset by a lot of refurbished HDDs, but then you usually KNOW that they are refurbished
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoIt may depend on the level of “refurbishing” that’s been done, but I don’t believe that’s a very good idea.
actually the article mentions the smart metrics did not show it. The guy had to use something deeper.
SMART data is reset by a lot of refurbished HDDs, but then you usually KNOW that they are refurbished
It may depend on the level of “refurbishing” that’s been done, but I don’t believe that’s a very good idea.