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External drives may contain refurbished drives!
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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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 URL ? Lynn |
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External drives may contain refurbished drives!
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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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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External drives may contain refurbished drives!
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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