It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/joetaxpayer on 2024-09-07 14:19:48.

I've started to buy a few drives from Server Part Deals, as I have NAS with 2 drive redundancy (Synology SHR2) and decided to try them.

First couple drives had 40K+ hours. Running for 3 months now, no issue.

Now, I just got in 2 Toshibas, 16TB, MD08ACA16TR and it's a mystery.

The part number doesn't show in a search except for this seller. Toshiba rep relied to my emails quickly. They don't recognize the number.

But, more strange to me? They both show 2 hours use. May '24 date codes.

Now, I'm just curious - the label says "Refurbished" on it. With no usage, I trust these were just some type of open box item that could be sold as new, so they relabled it? Happy with this purchase, just very confused.