A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours.
A recent investigation by German news portal Heise has uncovered that used Seagate data center-grade hard drives, originating from cryptocurrency mining farms, are being sold as new.
The used HDDs have been identified in markets across Europe, Asia, and North America with some of them having 15,000 to 50,000 hours of prior use had their internal records altered to appear unused, the report said.
Read More on: NetworkWorld
