Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

"Other than returning the four parts for a refund (which we did) and documenting this behavior here, our only other recourse was to guarantee that these four specific parts were never sold as new again:"

Alas, one can completely remove Sharpie writing from metal with 99% isopropyl alcohol. Did they make a better choice? This looks like Sharpie writing to me.

You can also remove sharpie writing using sharpies and a wet wipe - write over and wipe while its still wet. The dry pigment will dissolve in the solvent in the fresh ink.

My favourite trick is to write over Sharpie with a dry erase marker and erase it all.

They can do it but they likely won't bother at scale.

But are they genuine and unused? !

One spray of brake cleaner and it's gone. Cheaper to use a carbide scribe or simply get a shard of glass or ceramic and physically scribe into the drive. Now they're permanently used drives, no debate is possible.

That’s your takeaway?

Yep. They should've engraved it.