Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago"End-to-end fraud" with hard drives: Seagate finds counterfeit workshop in Asiawww.heise.deexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down12
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minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·17 days agoI skimmed the article, but I could not see this, so I am asking here. Is there a tool to check the extra data and verify if a drive is or isn’t counterfit?
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 days agoBasically no, if you didn’t buy directly from seagate you just can’t really know. Firmware can be updated, labels faked, serial numbers changed.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 days agoDamn it, I am right now in the market for seven 8TB drives, and I am looking at the Seagate Ironwolf Pro NT drives…
minus-squareonewithoutaname@k.fe.derate.melinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 days agoIf Seagate’s FARM is really unforgeable as the article says, then you can check it with smartctl -l farm /dev/sda.
I skimmed the article, but I could not see this, so I am asking here.
Is there a tool to check the extra data and verify if a drive is or isn’t counterfit?
Basically no, if you didn’t buy directly from seagate you just can’t really know.
Firmware can be updated, labels faked, serial numbers changed.
Damn it, I am right now in the market for seven 8TB drives, and I am looking at the Seagate Ironwolf Pro NT drives…
If Seagate’s FARM is really unforgeable as the article says, then you can check it with
smartctl -l farm /dev/sda.