Review on 💾 Seagate 10TB Helium Internal Bare Drive (ST10000NM0016), Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD, 7200RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, with 256 MB Cache by Jeff Billingsley

My first clue that something is wrong is that this item was only seconds after I opened the package. The label didn't even match the picture. Seagate Exos is shown on this product, but. The drive model number in the image is a Seagate Enterprise Capacity drive (which matches the actual drive). Thus, the image was clearly edited with Photoshop; which seemed strange. Then I decided to check the warranty status with Seagate. And surprisingly, the drive doesn't appear to be covered by a Seagate warranty. I'm still awaiting a response from Seagate. But even that didn't raise much concern. But when I installed the drive on my server, I found that one of the two drives already had data written to it. There are two linux ext3 and linux swap partitions on the hard drive. This is what the partition tables look like for the technicians. m6me:# parted /dev/sdiGNU Parted 3.2Using /dev/sdiWelcome to GNU Parted! Type "help" to see a list of commands. (parted) pModel: ATA ST10000NM0016-1T (scsi) Disk /dev/sdi: 10.0TBS Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096BPartition table: gptDisk Flags:Number Start End Size Filesystem Name Flags 1 20.5 KB 543 MB 543MB EXT3 Primary MSFTDATA 2 543MB 1086MB 543MB LINUX-SWAP (V1) Primary MSFTDATA 3 1086MB 9992GB 9991GB PRIMENS MSFTDATA 4 9992GB 9992GB 543mbb extled3bured 5 99920 ft 59m SE (parted) quit After that I ran smartctl on the disk to see the data disk 178 hours had on time. And the other one had 28. So. These are not new rims. Somewhat needed I guess. but not new and with an apparent lack of Seagate warranty. Pros: - 10TB drive - Model number matches product description - Fast and low latency Cons: - Used drives are sold as new - Questionable warranty status (3 year / 5 year Seagate / people or those willing to buy used drives Selling as new) - Update : I have been able to confirm with Seagate that my drives are under warranty until October 2, 2022 (4 years from today). Hard drives are obviously still underused. Yes, and a 4-year warranty is not the same as 5. But the discs were cheap. So I'm increasing my rating to two stars. I have no problem with the discs themselves, but the situation they came to me in is not ideal.