Why though? On the hope it’s an actual WD? But what purpose would that serve as most likely something has been messed with to make it cheaper. Or maybe from the same WD manufacturing line?
Curiosity, mostly. And yes, it could be a “factory second” labeled for local sale.
A SMART report would be interesting too. Perhaps it’s a relabeled old drive.
@stumu415@lemmy.zip Actually, thinking about this a little more, it’s possible that you have a used data center drive which was pulled due to test failure. Data center drives get replaced all the time when they show any minor signs of failure, or sometimes just because they reach a certain number of operating hours, even if there’s no issue. If the capacity checks out, and SMART shows minor issues or just long operating hours, this might be an entirely usable drive (in an array with some redundancy).
Why though? On the hope it’s an actual WD? But what purpose would that serve as most likely something has been messed with to make it cheaper. Or maybe from the same WD manufacturing line?
Curiosity, mostly. And yes, it could be a “factory second” labeled for local sale.
A SMART report would be interesting too. Perhaps it’s a relabeled old drive.
@stumu415@lemmy.zip Actually, thinking about this a little more, it’s possible that you have a used data center drive which was pulled due to test failure. Data center drives get replaced all the time when they show any minor signs of failure, or sometimes just because they reach a certain number of operating hours, even if there’s no issue. If the capacity checks out, and SMART shows minor issues or just long operating hours, this might be an entirely usable drive (in an array with some redundancy).