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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 62 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had to send a Barracuda drive back recently.

"It's fine" said Seagate's SMART analysis tools.

"Clunk clunk clunk clonk" said the HDD.

I know which of those results I trusted more.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they're coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I only wanted it for a Jellyfin drive. The one thing it could have been useful for and it even failed at that.

Seems like you need to pay the extra for an Ironwolf drive to get an actual "just like the good old days" HDD.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, buy NAS or enterprise drives for a NAS, don't buy consumer drives.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

…when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

And had a five year warranty.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Exos are typically still good drives though if you're going for storage.