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

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Steve Brooks <steveb at 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.

-- 
Arun Khan