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2.5 Admins 234: ChiaFraud

2025/2/13
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@Joe : 我对希捷卷入硬盘欺诈事件感到惋惜,因为他们近年来表现良好。这次硬盘欺诈并非希捷的责任,而是经销商所为。Chia币流行时,对大容量硬盘的需求激增,类似于AI和加密货币对GPU市场的影响。Chia币不再流行后,大量的硬盘被用于欺诈活动,通过修改固件和重置数据,可以将使用过的硬盘重新作为新硬盘出售。这种欺诈行为涉及多层销售环节,增加了识别难度。现在市面上充斥着大量被用于Chia挖矿的、经过固件篡改的希捷硬盘,这些硬盘的可靠性不如新硬盘。希捷已开始调查此事,并确认这些硬盘并非由他们销售,希捷正在调查硬盘欺诈事件,并确保供应商能获得真正的硬盘。如果怀疑买到假冒希捷硬盘,可以直接向希捷举报,可以使用希捷提供的在线工具检查硬盘的真伪,也可以通过希捷的道德热线匿名举报可疑的硬盘或卖家。这种欺诈行为通常涉及数据中心品牌硬盘,16TB Exos和16TB IronWolf Pro在硬件上基本相同,人们通常购买翻新的Exos硬盘用于家庭实验室。IronWolf硬盘通常更安静,因为零售购买者更看重这一点。购买新硬盘后,应尽早检查保修期,确认是否为全新硬盘,大多数商家只允许在短时间内退货。 @Alan : Water Panther公司销售二手硬盘,并篡改智能数据,冒充全新硬盘。Water Panther的缩写WP可能意在欺骗消费者,让他们误以为是西部数据(Western Digital)的产品。OpenSeaChest是由希捷发布的开源工具,可用于检查硬盘的底层指标。可以使用SmartMon工具访问一些farm值,但最好使用OpenSeaChest工具。OpenSeaChest是开源的,可在多个软件包仓库中使用。

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The podcast discusses a fraud case involving Seagate hard drives used in Chia cryptocurrency mining farms. Resellers are reselling used drives as new, causing reliability issues for customers.
  • Resellers are fraudulently selling used Seagate hard drives as new.
  • The drives were previously used in Chia cryptocurrency mining farms.
  • Seagate is investigating the issue and has released open-source tools to help customers check the authenticity of their drives.

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Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.

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