dvader
Adept
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to write a piece on cheap hard drives available from scam brands like Consistent, Geonix, Everstore, Matrix etc. Given that the Indian Judiciary sucks balls among other things, It was/is not at all surprising that these cheap hard drives are either refurbished or just plain scam of some sort. Lo and Behold Western Digital has filed a lawsuit against Geonix for selling old WD drives as rebranded (and brand new) Geonix drives. The defendant (Geonix) accepts that they use old WD drives (legally acquired) but they just rebrand it and misrepresent it which should be legal cuz their other scam call centers are legal too /s, the first part is not sarcasm though. These f***king scammers should rot in hell. F them
If these F***ers didn't wipe out the SMART data (which they do because there are errors) and instead of selling bad drives, they just sold refurbished drives with SMART intact, I would buy them in a heartbeat. The business model is simple, instead of doing the hard work of finding/sourcing working HDDs from data centers/institutions, they collect bad drives from some recycling company, wipe the SMART data off, and voila.
Either way, do not buy HDDs from unknown brands. HDDs unlike SSDs can't be made by your average Joe.
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In case someone missed.
Just wanted to write a piece on cheap hard drives available from scam brands like Consistent, Geonix, Everstore, Matrix etc. Given that the Indian Judiciary sucks balls among other things, It was/is not at all surprising that these cheap hard drives are either refurbished or just plain scam of some sort. Lo and Behold Western Digital has filed a lawsuit against Geonix for selling old WD drives as rebranded (and brand new) Geonix drives. The defendant (Geonix) accepts that they use old WD drives (legally acquired) but they just rebrand it and misrepresent it which should be legal cuz their other scam call centers are legal too /s, the first part is not sarcasm though. These f***king scammers should rot in hell. F them
If these F***ers didn't wipe out the SMART data (which they do because there are errors) and instead of selling bad drives, they just sold refurbished drives with SMART intact, I would buy them in a heartbeat. The business model is simple, instead of doing the hard work of finding/sourcing working HDDs from data centers/institutions, they collect bad drives from some recycling company, wipe the SMART data off, and voila.
Either way, do not buy HDDs from unknown brands. HDDs unlike SSDs can't be made by your average Joe.
Edit:
In case someone missed.
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