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Old June 5th 19, 08:56 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
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Default External drives may contain refurbished drives!

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


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Lynn