Seagate scam

[Tram]

Thought I'd post this people need to be mindful of this current scam.

'Seagate is investigating these practices': World's largest HDD maker aware of used hard drives being modified to pass as new

Counterfeit Seagate hard drives flood the market, experts warn

www.techradar.com

 

[HighlandeR]

Also the resetting nvme flash is still going around, probably will never stop since people want to resell it with higher value.

Bit like the cars mileage stats.

 

[Grim5]

Nothing new, storage drive scams have picked up massively in recent years

 

[novalis]

Yep fell for this the other day. I've got 6 disks waiting to be returned. Luckily the seller accepted my return request but it's still annoying to go through and waste time because of it.