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

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Steve Brooks steveb@mcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote:

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..

Thanks for the heads. After a slew of HDD failures, I use smartctl, badblocks on every drive before putting them into production. However this may not be practical when there are many disks in a storage.

Usually repaired drives are marked "Refurbished" if the RMA is handled by the manufacturer directly. RMA handled by retailer who knows what instruction the management gives regarding returns.