Recent content by MrPeteH

It is worse than just "old stock." Too many Amazon resellers are selling gray market product: designed for use by OEM's embedded in equipment, or destined for non-USA markets. In either case, the product may not just say "out of warranty." It may come up as an invalid serial number. This is why...

There's some misinformation in this thread. For a variety of reasons, HDD reliability has decreased in recent years, not least due to the advent of PRML technology, which compresses data far more than in the past, and makes data recovery more difficult. Across the board, HDDs fail in the long...