09-23-2022, 09:37 AM
I can see that these drives are coming from Taiwan. People say that these are Exos or other Seagate white label drives relabeled.
This might be one of the factories Seagate manufacture their drives.
The cheap price might indicate that these drives didn't meet their standards and therefore need to be destroyed or sold under a different label.
Hard drive firmware nowadays can keep faulty drives alive for a long time. Regular bad sector checks will isolate these areas on the hard drive. So you always keep your data on good parts.
There is nothing wrong with using these drives, but new Synology software try to force people onto their own drives (toshiba drives). Eventually, they want to become like HPE servers.
Here is some info from $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.ph...ves.31275/
You can use CrystalDiskInfo app to find out if this drive is used before and is there any errors.
This time you could help the community more than me by actually using them on a daily based (versus a single test by me). But if we get our hands on these we will make a video.
I will appreciate it if you share any CrystalDiskInfo reports.
I hope this helps.
This might be one of the factories Seagate manufacture their drives.
The cheap price might indicate that these drives didn't meet their standards and therefore need to be destroyed or sold under a different label.
Hard drive firmware nowadays can keep faulty drives alive for a long time. Regular bad sector checks will isolate these areas on the hard drive. So you always keep your data on good parts.
There is nothing wrong with using these drives, but new Synology software try to force people onto their own drives (toshiba drives). Eventually, they want to become like HPE servers.
Here is some info from $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.ph...ves.31275/
You can use CrystalDiskInfo app to find out if this drive is used before and is there any errors.
This time you could help the community more than me by actually using them on a daily based (versus a single test by me). But if we get our hands on these we will make a video.
I will appreciate it if you share any CrystalDiskInfo reports.
I hope this helps.