A couple of weeks ago, we echoed a news published by the German media Heise where there was talk of the sale of second -hand seagate hard records as if they were new. When we talk about second -hand hard drives, we do not talk about hard drives that have had little use or that come from returns, but units that, in some cases, accumulated until 50,000 hours of use.
According to the users who contacted this publication, the purchases had made them in different retailers in Germany, so there should be no problem.
Seagate quickly washed his hands by stating that this was not buying his hard drives in the Official distribution channels. Of the 12 stores initially involved, 5 if they were certified partners of Seagate, so some guilt must have this manufacturer.
Seagate did not sell or distributed these fraudulent units to the resellers. We recommend that the resellers only buy Certificated Seagate distribution partners to ensure that they only buy and sell new or rectified factory units.
As the days have passed, this problem has spread outside Germany even arriving in the United States, Australia and Japan. Heise has continued to investigate the issue and everything points out that they come from Chinese farms of cryptocurrency mining.
Used in Chia Mining
China was a cryptocurrency originating in China, which did not need De Gpus but of hard drives. The more space I had to store transactions, the more money it was obtained. As if waiting, the price of storage units shot up with up to 70%.
This was created in 2018, but it was not until 2020 when it began to capture interest. Precisely, based on the serial number of the affected units, it is known that many of these were put into circulation from 2020. Out of China, this cryptocurrency had barely impact, so the price of the storage units barely It was affected.
As this cryptocurrency has ceased to be profitable, many are the farms that are getting rid of storage units in the second -hand market, where it is estimated that some are some 400,000 16 TB hard drives Looking for a buyer.
Most stores that have distributed second -hand hard drives replacement or returns to all users who have been affected by this problem.
Seagate, meanwhile, continues to insist that the company only distributes new units. He also states that he has created a worldwide investigation where he invites all users who have been affected to contact them through fraud@seagate.com.
How many hours has a hard drive been in operation
The smart parameters allow to know the use that a unit has had, data that can be restored in a very simple way. However, the pharm values are not fully eliminated and the total time of use time of a unit can be known. One of the best applications to know this information and that, in addition, is freewe find it in Crstaldiskinfo.
