Some Asian criminal group was recently arrested for changing the firmware of HDD's and selling a massive amount of counterfeit hard drives. How would one check if the drive their own is one of these counterfeit ones?
>>106516121What do you mean by counterfeit? As in it lies about its size?
>>106516121in early 2000s some people recorded different rpm hdd and could tell their rotation speed by sound spectrum or fast fourier graphics
>>106516170No, it's a rebranded Seagate. My dad died that way
>>106516170It's simple don't buy Seagate
stay away from amazon and ebay, and you'll miss most of those counterfeit and used-as-new drives.
>>106516170Selling used drives as new.They reset the SMART data but some software like Seagate's Field Accessible Reliability Metrics (FARM) might report a higher usage (unless the scammers managed to reset that too)Here is an article in German: https://www.heise.de/news/Gebrauchte-Seagate-Festplatten-als-Neuware-im-Umlauf-10254276.html>How would one check if the drive their own is one of these counterfeit ones?Short answer: you can never be 100% sure.The problem is shops get scammed themselves and don't always know theor drives are counterfeit.But when you buy from a reputable store and you see any physical wear (like around the screw holes) or the SMART data or other diagnostics are off you should be able to return it.
>>106516410And don't be fooled by Amazon's "Seagate Store" page, it's all BS and Seagate will tell you to go fuck yourself if you try to claim that's an official store.
>>106516121buy an old optiplex off ebay and then just take the hard drive out and chuck the computer unless for an XP build
>>106516491The fuck is it then?
