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...and many used Seagate drives have been resold as new in the last 3 years. They were used for crypto mining and then had their SMART parameters wiped back to
by RachelF 2y ago
...and many used Seagate drives have been resold as new in the last 3 years. They were used for crypto mining and then had their SMART parameters wiped back to "new" 0 hours usage.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hard-disk-fraud-Increasing-evidence-of-origin-in-China-10269059.html https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hard-disk-fraud-Increasing-evid...
- loeg 2y agoSure, but it's hard to blame that on Seagate. The AFR is their fault.
- michaelt 2y agoIt's not Seagate's fault, but it would behove them to clamp down on such activity by authorised resellers. After all, it's not just the buyer getting ripped off; it's also Seagate. A customer paid for a brand new Seagate drive and Seagate didn't see a penny of it.
- loeg 2y agoYes. Nothing would lead me to believe Seagate isn't fervently working to shut down fraudulent resellers behind the scenes.
- numpad0 2y agoSeagate has always been the "you get what you pay for" && high replacement availability option, at least since the Thai flood and ST3000DM001 days - they kept shipping drives. It was always HGST > Toshiba > Seagate in both price and MTBF, with WD somewhere in between.
- rogerrogerr 2y agoIs crypto mining a high storage IO operation? I always thought it was hard on CPU and RAM, but not on disk IO.
- colonial 2y agoThere are coins like Chia that were built around "wasting disk space" proof-of-work rather than the "wasting {C/GPU|ASIC} cycles" PoW that Bitcoin uses (and Ethereum used to use.)
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