schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 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-square23fedilinkarrow-up1272arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·14 hours agoactually the article mentions the smart metrics did not show it. The guy had to use something deeper.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours agoSMART data is reset by a lot of refurbished HDDs, but then you usually KNOW that they are refurbished
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