No, the only issues we have seen is buying "new" drives on amazon that aren't the very latest, greatest 6-8TB drives. If they are very new, they haven't had ti

No, the only issues we have seen is buying "new" drives on amazon that aren't the very latest, greatest 6-8TB drives. If they are very new, they haven't had time to percolate through the supply chain and come out the other end as "drives we can pretend are new". So again, as of May 2016, it is 4TB drives that we are seeing at great prices, sold as brand new (no confusion about this at all) on Amazon, and ... turns out they are not new. I keep meaning to write a blog post about this with specific vendor names ...