Popular hard drive vendor on Amazon caught selling 10-year-old used but repackaged hard drive — but would you buy one if it was keenly priced?
Hard drives sold as new contained decade-old internals from previously used Seagate and Western Digital units SMART data was manipulated to hide prior usage, masking serious mechanical and read error issues Attingo analysis revealed leftover user data, proving zeroing only touched the start of storage sectors A recent case involving UnionSine-branded external hard drives has…