- Seagate denies the participation in fraudulent HDD.
- Buyers can consult the HDD Seagate use history using relevant tools.
- Retailers offer some kind of compensation.
Seagate hard drives that were previously used on Chinese chip -chiptomonets mining farms have been reluctant as new by unjack retailers.
An investigation by Heise indicates that large amounts of high mileage units have emerged in the market, particularly in Europe, Australia, Thailand and Japan.
These units have often found exas models of seagate of degree of data data, have encountered thousands of operating hours despite being marketed as new.
Chia Farms and the flood of second -hand units
In the peak of the cryptocurrency boom, mining operations required a large storage capacity, which led to an increase in high -end HDD demand. However, as the profitability of chia mining decreased, many farms closed and sold their hardware. These hard drives were repaired and reintroduced in the market, deceiving customers.
Concerned buyers can verify the true history of use of their seagate HDD using special diagnostic tools. Although intelligent parameters can be restored to hide the previous use, the farm values (accessible reliability metrics) provide a more precise record.
Users can verify these values running the SmartCTL -L Farm /Dev /SDA command on smartmontools version 7.4 or higher or using the Seagate Seatoools itself to inspect the operational history of the unit.
Seagate has declared that he only distributes genuine hard drives through the official channel, and suspects that these used HDD entered the secondary market before reaching consumers.
However, he has also launched a large -scale investigation and urged buyers affected to inform any suspicious purchase at [email protected].
Affected retailers are fighting fires, and Galaxus creates online aid pages for affected customers, while Proshop offers free returns and replacements. Alternate, a German retailer, denies the prior knowledge of the problem, but has encouraged customers to inform used units. Wortmann, on the other hand, insists on verifying HDD before offering compensation.
Via Tomshardware
