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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)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

PSA to always run a full length SMART check for any drives you buy, even from OEM. The short test and log are not enough, I have bought faulty drives that someone had reset the logs and power on hours.

All passed short SMART test, but failed long SMART test after only a few minutes. Found just one drive that the skrub forgot to wipe and the log showed 6 continuous years of power on usage.

Even from OEM, you will at least know if the hardware is DOA which you can then RMA.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Probably performs a good burn-in for them too.

Do people still do that? Used to be common practice to power on equipment and let it sit, either idle or full-tilt, for a couple days before even starting to configure it. Let the factory bugs scatter out.