June 6th 19, 01:38 AM
posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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External drives may contain refurbished drives!
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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