3 Oct
2013
3 Oct
'13
5:36 p.m.
From: Steve Brooks steveb@mcs.st-and.ac.uk
I ordered three new "Enterprise hard drives" this month from a well known UK online retailer. The drives arrived as new in their anti-static packaging. Before using one of the drives in a mission critical hardware raid I checked the SMART attributes and was amazed at what I saw; see a few of the attributes listed below
There's also the grey area of the "like new", refurbished (by the manufacturer, or even the vendor), etc... especially on ebay.
When I did some server support for a big name, I learned that all the (very expensive) repair parts they sold to clients whose equipment was out of warranty were all refurbished parts (from other clients).
JD