Both WD and Seagate “refurbish” and resell used hard drives, and that process involves wiping the SMART data, basically resetting the odometer to 0. I bought a couple of refurbished Exos drives from eBay a year ago and they still work. But there’s no telling how much use they got before they were refurbished. Maybe only 10TB written, maybe 100PB. Complete crapshoot. They shouldn’t be allowed to wipe SMART data to make it look like a brand new drive to the unsuspecting consumer.
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