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If anyone is still following this there were updates in further articles: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagates-fraudulent-hard-drives-scandal-deepens-as-clues-point-at-chinese-chia-mining-farms It definitely wasn't Seagate - the distributors or resellers purchased from...

It wasn't even the copper mod that was the issue with this GPU. It was missing plenty of passive components that were knocked off the back of the board and had physical trace damage, not to mention the thermal paste underneath the VRAM and core that necessitated a reball.

How long ago was that? I know there was a point in time when it was difficult to get disks due to flooding at their primary manufacturing plant, and some models were absolutely terrible. I remember the 1tb were quite bad, and heard the 750gb and 1.5tb of the series were bad as well.

They do more than the green label stickers in the US - they also laser etch REFURBISHED into the disk case. Not sure if it is the same worldwide, but I would expect it is. Generally with these disks there are no signs of use.

The commentary completely missed the point of the device. Nvidia advertised it's use for LLMs, particularly the high parameter models that need loads of VRAM. It also uses a relatively small amount of power compared to splitting model layers across multiple smaller GPUs ( to make up for...