I bought a 2.5" HDD on Aliexpress, I know this drive is used but it shows few hours of use and good health in crystal diskinfo. What do the Chinese change in the HDD to mask hours of use and true health?
Do they also change or remove important HDD functions such as head parking and drive power management?
I’d be more concern with what virus / trojin / malware they may have written into the firmware!
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should be a way to reflash from oem firmware. It’s good practice
If there is a way to do it, I don’t know it or even if the tools for doing so are available to us!
Assuming name brand drive, the tools/firmware should just be available through the product support page.
I’ve see the tools to check the disk / smart / and things like that but not flashing the firmware. I will need to check this out!
Do they also change or remove important HDD functions such as head parking and drive power management?
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