Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms

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Fraudulent hard drive scandal deepens at Seagate: Clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms

I've never heard of FARM. Is this something we can do ourselves?
Ah, thanks. I thought the article ended at the newsletter box, but I now see there was the extra you quoted underneath.
Chip burners that can overwrite the SMART data aren't expensive. I've also seen "refurbished" drives in which nobody even bothered to reset that data. In that case, the refurbishment apparently consists of a new sticker on the drive (sticker serial number not even matching the drives EPROM).
I dont think its a specific thing, more of a vague descriptor for values they used