I just bought 4 refurbished #Seagate drives to upgrade the storage in my NAS for more public service data archiving.
(Refurbished OK since I use RAID so if a drive fails I can replace it without losing any data.)
Each of the drives has a QR code to scan to verify that the drive isn't counterfeit.
Seagate has decided that a good security policy is to rate-limit users to one verification every few minutes.
Because, you know, it's not like people ever buy more than one drive at a time.
#smdh #tech
Jonathan Kamens /
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2025-02-14 16:15:20
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