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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If this is what I think it is, the hard drives are used data centre drives that are sold as "renewed". They wipe the drives then use manufacturer's tools to reset the clocks, effectively the same as winding back the mileage clock in a car. They are sold cheaper than new drives, but not really at a price that reflects their age and true used status.

I bought 4x 14TB drives of this type, pretty sure they were listed as new, although some show as used. 1 drive was DOA and I'm still waiting on the refund.

You can see tons of them on diskprices.com

Edit: oh wait, this is a different scam. This is like a combination of the classic size scam with the data centre scam. Fun!

It's probably related to Amazon's practice of binning all products with the same barcode together. So when someone sells something through Amazon their products get bundled with everyone else's, and when someone buys they get one from the bundle. A counterfeiter basically poisons the stock, and you end up with counterfeiters selling legit products and legit sellers selling the counterfeit ones.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Gotta love Party Cannon.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When someone asks her about settling Lebanon she smiles and says, “Yes, there too”.

Great, more war crimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You're right, Putin declined to meet with him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah I mean I wouldn't buy one and I would encourage others not to. But if you already have it and can't return it, make it your device, not theirs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Him turning himself in for safety is pure speculation at this point, however he was due to meet with Putin in Azerbaijan, until Putin declined.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I read it on a reddit thread about this arrest story. However, looking it up Putin declined to meet with him. That still kind of fits with him turning to France for safety.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah his death is why people have been talking about him over the last week or so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

https://turan.az/en/politics/putin-refused-to-meet-with-pavel-durov-in-baku-783760

Apparently he didn't end up meeting with Putin, but that had been the plan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

He just left Azerbaijan after meeting with Putin. I think he decided he'd be safer in French custody.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Unlike WhatsApp, yet people seem to trust that more lol.

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