German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/german-seagate-customers-say-their-new-hard-drives-were-actually-used-resold-hdds-reportedly-used-for-tens-of-thousands-of-hours
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hopesdead@startrek.website · 19 pts · 1y
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.
digdilem@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 1y
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.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
wasn't in the US New England area either, we have consumer protections that block that type of fraud here.
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
You know that drive has a 1 year warranty, right?
HDDs have a bathtub failure curve no matter who makes them.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
That is fucked up.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
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.
deranger@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y
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.
kalpol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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)
rotkehle@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
isn't that on the retailers though?
remer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
So if seagate isn’t an option, and WD isn’t an option because of the SMR bait and switch, what hard drives are recommended?
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Most high capacity drives are CMR, if that helps.
https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/#WD_CMR_SMR_drive_list
Compare this with Backblaze drive stats to get a reliable product:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/
Drives failures vary by model number more than by manufacturer. Buy seller refurbished drives from serverpartdeals if you don't want the companies to get your money.
admin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Maybe a shuckled Western Digital you find new and at a good price? I've had a 12TB I shuckled, but is just one. And after 2 years is still going strong.
remer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks for replying. What does “shuckled” mean?
admin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Pull them out of of an external HDD
danielintempesta@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
wtf The issue appears widespread, involving multiple retailers, including Amazon.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I just buy refurbished/refreshed drives intentionally. Recently picked up a 20tb drive for just under $200, and get a 5 year warranty with them too.
shamblamblam@aggregatet.org · -2 pts · 1y
NudeNewt@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
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dx1@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 1y
Much like how the current German government is just resold, used Nazi Germany
ReakDuck@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
If you mean the AfD which are actual Nazis, they never had power yet but gain much more traction recently sadly. Even Elon Musk loves AfD but he a Nazi too, so no wonder things gained traction with his twitter/X.
Everything that were in government, was pretty left wing except the CDU which was.. well they were lobbyistic but not that far right. But today they are.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
SPD singnals left but turned right, FDP are also rightwing. The only option are greens who only partially forfilled their promise and the left which has a realy low chance of getting relevant results.
ReakDuck@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Oh, I didnt knew enough about SPD. I see.
The left seems like the most important choice. I hope they will be heared