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German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] EvacuateSoul 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of that, interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, we did that at my last company to make sure our hardware was up to spec. We deployed an IOT device for long term outdoor installations, so it needed to survive very hot temps. We had a refrigerator we gutted and added heat to, and we'd run a simulation with heavier than expected load for a couple days and tossed/RMAd the bad units.

That was a literal burn in, but the same concept ak applies to pretty much everything. If you build/buy a PC, test the hardware (prime95 CPU test, memtest for RAM, etc). Put it through its paces to work out the major bugs before relying on it so you don't have to RMA a production system.