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		discreditable on Nov 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backblaze hard drive reliability stats for Q3 2016 > When you buy hard disks ONLY buy from Amazon or Newegg directly - never buy from a 3rd party seller on their site. Agreed. A few times I've purchased third-party disks and found (via SMART data) that the drives were well used despite not being sold as such.

chiph on Nov 15, 2016 | [–]

Just bought some drives that were fulfilled via Amazon (but not sold by Amazon.com LLC themselves). You've given me something to check when they arrive.

sigstoat on Nov 16, 2016 | [–]

Just returned a "new" drive with 31k power on hours. I should've known when the drive wasn't in a standard WD antistatic bag.

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