The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Extension_Cat6683 on 2024-12-31 21:43:33.

I come across a lot of highly rated sellers on several market places for used or new products in Germany and Netherlands for example. They sell WD UltraStar/ Seagate Iron wolfs 4-20 TB capacities for literally half the price of a new lne…

Most of the sellers have 500-1000 5star reviews…proper businesses…VAT invoices…they also give 2-3yr warranty on these HDDs and clearly claim 0Hr/0TB on these drives…they say these are overstock from OEMs…

But I don’t buy this reasoning…

So my question is… what’s the catch… perhaps you guys know.

Rejects from OEMs, datacenters, old HDD over written with are FW, leaking Helium seals?