Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
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Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#2https://archive.ph/2025.02.09-074637/https://www.heise.de/en...
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Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#3Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864788
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#4loads for me, have cookies,java script, dom storage, off by default..add blockers on, I get just the text
which is just fine
still dont understand how a major disk maker got caught up in something as skeezy as this though
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#5https://archive.ph/2025.02.09-074637/https://www.heise.de/en... As you cannot deny cookies without paying.
And this BS comes from a German company. Oof.
Stop pushing EU-wide laws you cannot yourself adhere to.
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#6The same scheme is very common on the market for "new" laptop batteries sold by Chinese retailers on for example eBay. The batteries will come with a reprogrammed charge cycle count of 0, an unlikely serial number of all-zeroes/ones/nines or 123456789 etc., and with about 50% of its marketed capacity.
As soon as you bring up a refund/warranty errand with the retailer they will offer a 50% discount for the battery in return for you not giving them a 1-star rating. Now you've still paid them for a bad battery, and you've helped keeping the systemic economic crime alive by not warning other customers.
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#7loads for me, have cookies,java script, dom storage, off by default..add blockers on, I get just the text which is just fine still dont understand how a major disk maker got caught up in something as skeezy as this though
It sounds like Seagate has nothing to do with this. It sounds like someone is scamming retailers and distributors.
None of the drives in this article were shipped by Seagate, only some by authorized resellers.
EG, Amazon, newegg are authorized resellers.
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#8https://archive.ph/2025.02.09-074637/https://www.heise.de/en... As you cannot deny cookies without paying.
Alternatively the "reader view" feature in Firefox can be used as the entire article is loaded in memory (as opposed to other websites where they'd load a preview till you agree to cookies / pay for a subscription)
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#9https://archive.ph/2025.02.09-074637/https://www.heise.de/en... As you cannot deny cookies without paying.
And this BS comes from a German company. Oof. Stop pushing EU-wide laws you cannot yourself adhere to.
Are they breaking the law? I don't love that they're requiring either payment or allowing cookies, but at least they're fully disclosing that and giving you the choice. I'm pretty sure that's what the GDPR requires.
Re: Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
#10The same scheme is very common on the market for "new" laptop batteries sold by Chinese retailers on for example eBay. The batteries will come with a reprogrammed charge cycle count of 0, an unlikely serial number of all-zeroes/ones/nines or 123456789 etc., and with about 50% of its marketed capacity. As soon as you bring up a refund/warranty errand with the retailer they will offer a 50% discount for the battery in…
This stuff is trivial to detect by the platform. At best the platform could say they don’t search for it, but the only reason not to would be because they don’t want to find it. In essence they’re knowingly outsourcing fraud to sellers.