Hi,
I've recently learned about the problem of used Seagate Exos drives being sold as new in Germany. I've bought 3 16TB drives in January (via Amazon.de) and have checked the FARM data and all 3 have 20k+ (22k, 27k and 23k) hours of power-on.
I've managed to arrange mine to be returned, but now I have about of 9TB (can shrink it down to 8 maybe 7TB if need be) of data that I need to store while I get at least one new other drive. 2 of the drives are out of commission already, but my data is sitting on one of them.
I'm thinking about these 2 options:
- Get a single new drive to start with (I'm running Unraid) and just transfer my stuff over as I have ~2 weeks to return these.
- Store my data in some cloud storage for a month or so until I replace my large drives. But as far as I've checked this can be really expensive really quickly even with stuff like S3 Deep Glacier Archive. Are there any cheaper solutions?
The issue now is that I have no clue which drives I should buy now? I obviously don't trust Seagate drives with these issues now. But how do I know if WD or Toshiba drives were affected since, as far as I know, they don't have FARM logs?
Looking at the DoM on the 2 drives I've removed from my machine, they were made in 2021, so that's probably a good stat to look at. What are some reasonable DoM dates for new drives? Do all manufacturers have them printed on the label? Can I trust the labels even?
I'm just really highly skeptical right now and have no clue how to proceed and would really appreciate you guys' help. Thank you