Isn't this at least the second time Seagate have been caught out selling used hardware as new?
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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So if seagate isn’t an option, and WD isn’t an option because of the SMR bate and switch, what hard drives are recommended?
wtf The issue appears widespread, involving multiple retailers, including Amazon.
I owned a Xbox branded HDD that stopped working after 60 days. It was exactly 61 days. I had tried to get a refund at Best Buy where I bought it and they refused because their return policy said 60 days.
I simply refuse to purchase a Seagate product ever again.
Guessing this wasn't in Europe. Consumer protection laws actually do stuff over here. Goods must be fit for purpose, and there's no fixed limit for how long that is. A refund after two years wouldn't be unreasonable for a hard drive and likely to succeed.
wasn't in the US New England area either, we have consumer protections that block that type of fraud here.
You know that drive has a 1 year warranty, right?
HDDs have a bathtub failure curve no matter who makes them.
That is fucked up.
I don't think I've ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I've been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.
When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.
They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.
I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.
Yep I have a Seagate array and a HGST array and a WD array, and they've got 50k hours and are all fine (he said knocking on wood)
isn't that on the retailers though?