News Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected

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Used Seagate's IronWolf Pro HDDs are also sold as new.

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[markdj57]

I purchased a Seagate iron wolf from Amazon UK, it came from a 3rd party, it was clearly 2nd hand and made weird ticking noises. Returned it and got a refund.

 

[Sluggotg]

I get most of my drives from Newegg, (sometimes Best Buy). Amazon has some really dicey vendors selling on it. Fraud is rampant on Amazon. 50,000 hours of wear on a Hard Drive is 5.7 years. Those drives are not reliable. I am always amazed at how scammers do things like this and never seem to actually go to jail or even get caught in the act.

 

[steviant]

Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected​

The title makes it sound like Seagate is the perpetrator, rather than another victim of this fraud. The only reason I even read the article was because of the blatantly misleading title that attributes the fradulent HDDs to Seagate.

Do better.

 

[dosmastrify]

Maybe I'm the idiot here. Why not make the stats of the drive like an odometer that can only go UP, not be erased

 

[Mr Majestyk]

I get most of my drives from Newegg, (sometimes Best Buy). Amazon has some really dicey vendors selling on it. Fraud is rampant on Amazon. 50,000 hours of wear on a Hard Drive is 5.7 years. Those drives are not reliable. I am always amazed at how scammers do things like this and never seem to actually go to jail or even get caught in the act.

scAmazon would be a more apt name. They are a disgrace and the Feds do little to reign them in.

 

[Takeoa]

Maybe I'm the idiot here. Why not make the stats of the drive like an odometer that can only go UP, not be erased

My apologies to tell you this, but you live in a parallel world if you believe that Odometers can’t be tempered with.

 

[AkroZ]

Maybe I'm the idiot here. Why not make the stats of the drive like an odometer that can only go UP, not be erased

Odometers can be changed, in cars the fraud is estimated between 5% and 12%, and between 30% and 50% for trans country cars.

For hard drives even if you go the hard way of using fusing memory, the communication protocol used to provide the monitoring data is managed by a program (firmware) which can be changed to provide other values.

 

[Justin Goldberg]

scAmazon would be a more apt name. They are a disgrace and the Feds do little to reign them in.

Hard disk drives do have certain pieces of data that cannot be accessed with software. So it is possible.

I better solution is just wholesale abandon Seagate altogether, especially with their CAV CLV problems.

 

[maffey48]

Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected​

The title makes it sound like Seagate is the perpetrator, rather than another victim of this fraud. The only reason I even read the article was because of the blatantly misleading title that attributes the fradulent HDDs to Seagate.

Do better.

I agree 100%. It's misleading at best and downright libelous clickbait at worst.
I honestly thought one of the best and most reputable businesses in the industry was guilty of extremely foul play.

 

[Jtu]

Honestly after working in enterprise IT for a couple of decades, I would trust an EXOS drive with 50000 hours on it more than a new Ironwolf. These drives are absolute beasts, we beat the crap out if them 24/7 for the entire 5 year replacement cycle and had failues in sub-5% range. I've bought MDD refurbished drives from Amazon knowing full well that they are likely to be in this situation and am perfectly comfortable putting them into my home NAS in a RAID array.