East Digital Exos "New" Not So New

macmanluke on 31/01/2025 - 00:00
Last edited 31/01/2025 - 09:25 by 1 other user

With a story about a heap of Seagate drives being sold as new but used in Germany

Came across this tool which can check farm hours on Seagate drives which can be compared with smart power on hours to see if drives are truly new

Well as kinda expected all 3 of my 16tb x16/x18 Exos drives currently in my server had 15,000-17,000 hours on them at the time the smart power on hours were wiped with manufacture dates being 2021/22 and the price I was always suspicious. Got 2 more still in the box which are no doubt the same.

I'd have likely still bought them if they were honest being they are half the local price but not sure I'd like to encourage the behaviour.

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  Bruceflix on 31/01/2025 - 00:10

  Fine for storing "Linux ISOs". Wouldn't put valuable data on them

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    macmanluke on 31/01/2025 - 00:19

    +2

    eh not really any worse than the 6-8tb drives they replaced with 50,000hrs+
    and run dual parity (eg 2 drive failure safe)

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  CyberMurning on 31/01/2025 - 00:43

  So can we complain to the seller and send proof etc?

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  c64 on 31/01/2025 - 01:00

  TLDR

  old used seagate exos drives sold as new

  get real "power on hours" for seagate exos drives (only, not WD) using:

  "smartctl -l farm $dev" instead of "smartctl -A $dev"

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  c64 on 31/01/2025 - 01:44

  +1

  according to the story below, people are buying drives purported to be new from official seagate retailers and ending up with used OEM drives with no manufacturer warranty

  https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/german-seaga…