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Your ‘new’ Seagate data center hard drive is likely an used one
The cryptocurrency connection: how used HDDs entered the market The affected hard drives reportedly stem from cryptocurrency mining farms, particularly those that mined Chia cryptocurrency. Unlike traditional cryptocurrency mining that relies on GPUs, Chia mining is storage-intensive, leading to a surge in HDD demand during its peak. As Chia’s profitability declined, many mining operations shut down, offloading their heavily used HDDs into secondary markets. Some of these drives have had their internal usage logs reset…
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