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Seagate opens an eBay store to sell refurbished hard drives — 22TB drives for $311 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Blue_Morpho 3 points 4 months ago

On the other hand, I bought a few refurbished HGST's on Amazon and found they were brand new like many had claimed.

That is many "refurbished" drives are drives that a company bought by mistake and returned without ever unpacking them. They can't be sold as new but they are.