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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] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I’ve sworn off Seagate for any spinning rust. I’ve had far too many drives fail within a few months - including the warranty replacement drives - for me to ever trust any data to them again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I made a pretty big reddit post about this years ago. It was Seagate drives I was buying too.