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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

It may depend on the level of "refurbishing" that's been done, but I don't believe that's a very good idea.