
Worn Exos HDDs on sale as "refurbished"?
I bought 2 Exos x18 16TB hard drives yesterday: (https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/seagate-exos-x18-st16000nm000j-refurbished-16-tb-35-cmr-festplatte-57426660?supplier=406802) SMART vs FARM shows a clear deception: Power On Hours: SMART data showed: 0 hours FARM data shows: 25,426 hours (almost 3 years) Power Cycle Count: SMART data showed: 2 FARM data shows: 31 Usage Statistics (completely hidden in SMART): Total Read Commands: 825,793,421 Total Write Commands: 105,556,255 Logical Sectors Written: 50,072,754,537 Logical Sectors Read: 211,029,323,023 Per-Head Write Hours: Each head has between 5,700-6,800 hours of write time I received very similar values for the 2nd drive. Digitec description: "Origin: possibly already in use. Condition: Refurbished. 2 year warranty via Digitec Galaxus.". Possibly already in use and condition: refurbished sound very deceptive in retrospect. Why was the SMART data wiped? Where is the refurbishment certificate? At least a labelling or grading? I'm absolutely disappointed with Digitec, because the HDDs look like new at first glance, but if you take a closer look, it looks like a rather heavily worn hard drive and normally they only look at SMART. Is there an official statement on this? Opinions from the Community?


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