• entertainmeonly@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    34k customers and a 100% positive approval rating? Not one person in all those customers was even neutral about their purchase? Super fishy. That seems not possible. I’m guessing this is a total scam just from that.

    Edit: after scrolling this sellers feedback it all looks legit. That’s just so rare to have 100% with that many reviews.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, if I was selling new hardware for that cheap too, I would probably have a high approval rating.

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    1 year ago

    The catch is that they’re Seagate drives. Seagate have some of worst reliability in the industry and you’re buying it secondhand from eBay.

    Personally I’d rather just set my money on fire.

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    Definitely check the SMART status for uptime when you receive them. Make sure you can return it before you buy it as well

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      I bought four of those drives from SPD to put in my NAS. After testing and burn in, one of them started failing tests. SPD had me send the failing drive in and they sent me a new one. Otherwise these have been great so far.

      Editing this 10 days later, having two more drives fail SMART tests after a sudden sharp increase in offline uncorrectable sectors. I’m trying to go through the RMA process now. I can no longer recommend this unless you’re okay playing the RMA game until you get reliable drives. Backblaze tested the exact Seagate drives I’m using and only had a 0.60% annual failure rate. The fact that I’m seeing 3 out of 4 drives I’ve bought showing signs of failure makes me think something is wrong with the ones they’re selling.

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        Oh sorry I didn’t realize the ebay post was for a new drive. I just automatically assumed ebay was used/refurbished as well. My bad this doesn’t compare as I was expecting.