- Seagate denies his participation in fraudulent hard disk networks.
- Buyers can consult the history of the use of the Seagate hard drive using relevant tools.
- The retailers offer a kind of remuneration.
The Seagate hard drives that were previously used in Chinese Farms of the Chia cryptocurrency were sold as new by without distrust.
A heise survey indicates that large quantities of mile mille disks are surfaced on the market, especially in Europe, Australia, Thailand and Japan.
These discs, often seagate exos models of quality data center, have been found with thousands of operational hours although they are marketed as new.
Chia Farms and the flow of used records
At the top of the cryptocurrency boom, mining operations required a large storage capacity, leading to an increase in high-end hard drives demand. However, as Chia Mining’s profitability has decreased, many farms have closed and sold their equipment. These hard drives were then reconditioned and reintroduced to the market and deceiving customers.
The buyers concerned can check the actual history of the use of their Seagate hard drives using special diagnostic tools. Although intelligent parameters can be reset to hide prior use, farm values (reliability metrics accessible to the terrain) provide a more precise recording.
Users can check these values by executing the Smartctl -L Farm / Dev / SDA command in SmartMontools Version 7.4 or more or using the Seatools of Seagate software from Seagate to inspect the operating history of the reader.
Seagate said that it only distributes real hard drives through the official canal, and it suspects that these hard drives used in the secondary market before reaching consumers.
However, he also launched a large -scale survey and urged buyers assigned to report any suspicious purchase at [email protected].
The retailers affected through fire, with Galaxus creating online help pages for the customers concerned, while Proshop offers free yields and replacements. Alternate, a German retailer, denies the prior knowledge of the problem but encouraged customers to report used readers. Wortmann, on the other hand, insists on checking the hard drives before offering compensation.
Via Tomshardware
