[CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

Steve Brooks steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Wed Oct 2 18:21:20 UTC 2013


> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote:
>
>>    9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   098   097   000    Old_age   -   2106
>>   12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   -     80
>
>> replaced with new drives. Wow... I was also told by the online retailer
>> this is known as a grey import and is not that uncommon..
>
> Grey imports would not have been running for 87 days and power cycled 80
> times in that period.
>
> If the retailer doesn't refund your money then you need to escalate.
>
> And name the retailer...


The retailer is certainly willing to refund and the manufacturer is 
also willing to replace.. The worrying part is that the drives that were 
replaced under warranty should *not* find there way back onto the shelves 
re-packaged as new enterprise class drives..

Steve




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