schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours 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-up1318arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1316arrow-down1external-linkGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·19 hours agoSMART data is reset by a lot of refurbished HDDs, but then you usually KNOW that they are refurbished
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoIt may depend on the level of “refurbishing” that’s been done, but I don’t believe that’s a very good idea.
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.