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Buyers thought they got new portable drives during Amazon Tech Week (www.techradar.com)

submitted 3 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/tech@programming.dev

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Hard drives sold as new contained decade-old internals from previously used Seagate and Western Digital units

SMART data was manipulated to hide prior usage, masking serious mechanical and read error issues

Analysis revealed leftover user data, proving zeroing only touched the start of storage sectors

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[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago

Boycott Amazon.