German Seagate customers say their ‘new’ hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours

@[email protected] · 7 days ago

German Seagate customers say their ‘new’ hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

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.

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

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)