Following a German outlet reporting that over fifty of its readers bought supposedly new Seagate hard drives that were actually used, the storage company tells Tom's Hardware that resellers need to buy from certified Seagate partners.
A week ago, Heise.de published a story about how one of its readers purchased two Seagate HDDs that were advertised as new, but were discovered to have been used for over 10,000 hours. Yesterday, the publication posted a follow-up article after receiving emails from over fifty other readers who claimed they had also been ripped off and given used hard drives instead of the new ones they thought they had bought.
