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German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Seems strange as its from several different retailers but seagate confirmed they where refurbished so seems a bit bait and switch but why would so many be doing it?

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Either Seagate is doing it or all the retailers get them from the same source (which may not be Seagate) that is doing it or is contaminated by fulfillment pooling

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

The wholesaler where these are shipped from may have bought a large amount of hard drives from China and Co mingled the stock. Most logical explanation.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 days ago

they confirmed they were refurbished, as well as the drives were OEM drives (meaning different warranty) so the problem is that someone 100% has a mixed assortment of storage. whether that was on Seagates end or the retailers end (more likely imo to be on the retailers end, as Seagate has their own refurbished drive market they run, and would only be a seagate problem if someone mistakingly shipped a bunch to a retailer) as they are their own source and is not affected by other sources.