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Hard drives: Where there is room for cheating, there will be cheating https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2025/6... Latest HEISE Article https://www.heise.de/news/Festplatten... Blocks and Files Article with Seagate Official & Representative Quotes - https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/02/25... Original Video on Seagate EXOS Drives + How to Check FARM    • SERIOUSLY. CHECK YOUR HARD DRIVES RIGHT NO...   Synology Docker to Check FARM, gamestailer94 / farm-check - https://github.com/gamestailer94/farm... Are Your Hard Drives NEW? CHECK RIGHT NOW – IT’S IMPORTANT! https://nascompares.com/news/seagate-... Original Jan '25 Heise.de article https://www.heise.de/news/Betrug-mit-... Seatools - https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support... Smartmontools https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Do... Putty https://www.putty.org/ DriveDX for Mac - https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx Video Chapters 00:00 - Introduction: Revisiting the Seagate Hard Drive Fraud 00:32 - Summary of Reports and Investigations 01:30 - Guest Interview: Lotz Labs from Heise.de 02:00 - How the Fraud Was Discovered 02:47 - Widespread Reports: Over 250 Cases & Global Impact 04:18 - Is Europe More Affected? Differences in Consumer Awareness 05:34 - Possible Links to Chia Cryptocurrency Farming 07:05 - How Fake Drives Entered the Supply Chain 08:06 - Investigating Distribution and Reseller Networks 09:15 - Seagate's Response: Fast, but Not Transparent 10:52 - Fraudsters Can Now Modify Farm Data 11:32 - How to Detect a Fraudulent Hard Drive 14:14 - Why Only Seagate? Will Other Brands Be Affected? 15:24 - Legal Implications & Consumer Rights in Different Regions 19:45 - Why the Issue Might Be Worse in Europe Than the US 21:19 - Key Cases That Highlight the Scale of the Problem 23:01 - Blocks & Files Article: Seagate’s Official Statement 24:34 - Seagate’s Take on Warranty, Resellers, & Counterfeit Labels 26:09 - The Gray Market & Out-of-Region Hard Drive Sales 28:15 - Conclusion: What to Do If You Recently Bought a Seagate Drive 29:16 - Final Advice: Always Verify Your Drives & Buy from Trusted Sellers https://nascompares.com/2025/02/21/up... ---------------- For deeper analysis, users can SSH into their NAS and install smartmontools, a command-line utility that provides detailed drive health reports. Running the command: smartctl -a /dev/sdX (where X is the drive identifier) will display all SMART attributes, including power-on hours. However, if the SMART data has been reset or manipulated, users can check the FARM (Field-Accessible Reliability Metrics) values for a more accurate picture of a drive’s actual usage history. To retrieve FARM values, NAS users can use: smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX This will reveal true power-on hours, drive usage patterns ----------------- How NAS Users Can Check SMART Data and Power-On Hours Over SSH (Including FARM Values for Verification & Integration with Smartmontools) To begin, users should SSH into their NAS and install Smartmontools if it is not already available. On Debian-based NAS systems (such as OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS SCALE, and some QNAP models running Debian Linux), install Smartmontools with: sudo apt update && sudo apt install smartmontools On Red Hat-based systems, use: sudo yum install smartmontools For NAS systems that do not allow package installations, users can still manually compile Smartmontools or install a Docker container that includes the tool. Once Smartmontools is installed, running the command: smartctl -a /dev/sdX (replacing X with the correct drive identifier) will display SMART attributes, including Power-On Hours (POH). However, since bad actors can manipulate SMART data to show zero hours, users should perform an additional FARM query with: smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX Unlike SMART power-on hours, which can be reset, FARM values track long-term reliability metrics stored at a deeper firmware level, making them much harder to falsify. ----------------- For deeper inspection, users can install Smartmontools 7.4. To check SMART data, open a command prompt (or terminal in Linux/macOS) and run: smartctl -a /dev/sdX (replacing X with the correct drive letter) to view detailed SMART attributes. If the reported power-on hours seem too low or suspiciously reset, users can retrieve FARM values by running: smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX This command will reveal the actual power-on hours and potential prior usage, ---------------- Video Chapters here if you need more help* - https://ask.nascompares.com/ NASCompares Free Advice Area - https://nascompares.com/contact-us/