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Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

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146 points walterbell | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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LeifCarrotson ◴[12 Nov 25 18:44 UTC] No.45904120[source]▶
It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon.

I don't buy drives on Amazon for my 9 year old's laptop because of the rampant fraud and counterfeiting, I'm shocked that they're trusted for any business use-cases by anyone moderately savvy. I'm even more shocked that the takeaway is to blame the individual seller, rather than the marketplace that makes it possible.

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1. rsync ◴[12 Nov 25 19:50 UTC] No.45905411[source]▶
"It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon."

We don't.

"At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable service."

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"However, from time to time, it is expedient to purchase parts from Amazon - something we do with care and suspicion."

... and that care and suspicion takes the form of physical and logical inspections and extended part burn-in.

As you can see, this QC process caught these mis-labeled parts.