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  • External drives may contain refurbished drives!

    From Percival P. Cassidy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 4 20:44:47 2019
    I just read a piece by BackBlaze discussing the best kinds of drives to
    use for various purposes, and I noticed that they claim that external
    drives *may* contain refurbished drives!

    This could account for the reports on Amazon that the drives inside a
    certain Seagate external drive had an unusual model number: I forget the capacity, but instead of ending in 004 it ended in Z04, IIRC.

    Perce

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Percival P. Cassidy on Wed Jun 5 14:56:26 2019
    On 6/4/2019 7:44 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
    I just read a piece by BackBlaze discussing the best kinds of drives to
    use for various purposes, and I noticed that they claim that external
    drives *may* contain refurbished drives!

    This could account for the reports on Amazon that the drives inside a
    certain Seagate external drive had an unusual model number: I forget the capacity, but instead of ending in 004 it ended in Z04, IIRC.

    Perce

    URL ?

    Lynn

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  • From Percival P. Cassidy@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Wed Jun 5 16:31:36 2019
    On 6/5/19 3:56 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I just read a piece by BackBlaze discussing the best kinds of drives
    to use for various purposes, and I noticed that they claim that
    external drives *may* contain refurbished drives!

    This could account for the reports on Amazon that the drives inside a
    certain Seagate external drive had an unusual model number: I forget
    the capacity, but instead of ending in 004 it ended in Z04, IIRC.

    Perce

    URL ?

    Here's the URL for the BackBlaze piece:

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-buying-guide/

    Perce

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Percival P. Cassidy on Wed Jun 5 19:38:42 2019
    On 6/5/2019 3:31 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
    On 6/5/19 3:56 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I just read a piece by BackBlaze discussing the best kinds of drives
    to use for various purposes, and I noticed that they claim that
    external drives *may* contain refurbished drives!

    This could account for the reports on Amazon that the drives inside a
    certain Seagate external drive had an unusual model number: I forget
    the capacity, but instead of ending in 004 it ended in Z04, IIRC.

    Perce

    URL ?

    Here's the URL for the BackBlaze piece:

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-buying-guide/

    Perce

    Thanks !

    Lynn

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  • From Percival P. Cassidy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 27 19:50:11 2019
    On 6/4/19 8:44 PM, I wrote:

    I just read a piece by BackBlaze discussing the best kinds of drives to
    use for various purposes, and I noticed that they claim that external
    drives *may* contain refurbished drives!

    This could account for the reports on Amazon that the drives inside a
    certain Seagate external drive had an unusual model number: I forget the capacity, but instead of ending in 004 it ended in Z04, IIRC.

    I just bought some 8TB Seagate drives in the "frustration-proof"
    packaging (not sure it's any easier to get to the drive than the
    packages I used to get from NewEgg, the ones with the softish black
    plastic supports in a cardboard box -- but at least I didn't have to
    slash into a plastic "shell." These are entirely cardboard, but on a
    couple of them it seemed that a tab had not been inserted in the correct
    place, allowing the drive to slide around a little).

    The label on the outside is "ST8000DMZ04 Contains ST8000DM004."

    Perce

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