Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop

Re:Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop by dehrmann on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:19PM (#44925280)

I recently bought some 8TB SSDs that were obviously Samsungs, but had no serial or capacity label. They came at a steep discount, so some shenanigans were expected, and they're in a mirrored setup, so my data is safe-ish. I just have no idea why they're missing the labels.

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Re:Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop by simmerup on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:40PM (#44925421)

I'm very paranoid but I wouldn't want the responsibility of a databrack which I didn't know the history of.

Anything could be on there

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Re:Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop by pessimizer on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:17PM (#44925721)

First thing I (and a lot of people) do with a drive is encrypt the volume and write zeros to the entire thing. Otherwise, you're leaking information about how much is on them after you encrypt them for your own needs. Once they've been "erased" they're ready to use (or give away to friends.)

edit: of course who knows what's on the hardware, but I haven't heard of the exploit that would doom me.

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Re:Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop by gjvc on Sunday August 17, 2025 @01:50AM (#44929204)

no serial number == stolen

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Re:Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop by dehrmann on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:44PM (#44935185)

Could also mean gray market.

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