Planet Debian – Daniel Lange: Seagate old hard disks sold as new, smartmontools v7.4 for Debian Bullseye and Bookworm

Apparently somebody managed to resell Seagate hard disks that have 2-5 years of operations on them as brand new. They did this by using some new shrink wrap bags and resetting the used hard disk SMART attributes to factory-new values. Luckily Seagate has a proprietary extension “Seagate FARM (Field Access Reliability Metrics)” implemented in their disks that … the crooks did not reset. Luckily … because other manufacturers do not have that extension. And you think the crooks only re-sell used Seagate disks? Lol. The get access to the Seagate FARM extension, you need smartctl from smartmontools v7.4 or later. For Debian 12 (Bookworm) you can add the backports archive and then install with
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