Hard disk fraud: Increasing evidence of origin in China Cases from all over the world Slabs from chia farms? Warranty far too short Recently, many online retailers have sent out Seagate hard disks as new that have already been running somewhere for many, many hours. As yet unknown fraudsters had reset the SMART values of used drives and smuggled them back into distribution via equally unknown channels. Official Seagate dealers are also affected. However, Seagate server hard disks also log their ...