Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ken Springer Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Checking out a hard drive Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:00 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <140220170745436320%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net s4XKpio2lhB189ToArWU6nipmNhaEkjQIyLzq7+OxRNKlD1NZkbmQGiZKMaA36lcyjozJPWzXFyltkQBPYiyKhfcOLXbfJwXz5fgfXuOlBW+Y4zxf0SmBuCjinfHMFmn NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="4pNkQQuSlsgcVJq0rxxuYVfbBhciifjjiRxDG903tQIR5WbJQWqkh0CXK/5kHAqPpd+1BOwUc5xt3oiCiSn534/HnQeFuo0mWO/u9dXCFsGhMFH9XfqgxoE1fz7EIsmM"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:L92uCBhhJz3yW2dLm7EzUfxIc6Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:100339 On 2/14/17 12:10 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: > On 2017-02-14, isw wrote: >> In article <140220170745436320%nospam@nospam.invalid>, >> nospam wrote: >> >>> In article , Ken Springer >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> A question for those with an overall negative view towards using the >>>> drive Isaac found... >>>> >>>> Would it be a relatively sound conclusion that none of you would buy a >>>> refurbished drive from a reputable source? >>> >>> there's a big difference between a refurbished drive from a reputable >>> source and a drive found in the trash. >> >> I'm OP. >> >> You claim that there is "a big difference". What exactly does >> "refurbishing" do to a drive *that is apparently working fine when it is >> received* (which this one would have been)? > > The only difference that matters to me is that typically refurbished > products come with a warranty. > >> And so my guess for how this particular drive found itself in a box of >> junk is that some Windows user couldn't get it to work for some reason >> and decided it was "broken". > > Possibly. I wouldn't use it unless the data on it is thoroughly backed > up though - just in case. Is there a program in the Mac world similar to the programs HD Tune and HD Sentinel in Windows world? -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 51.0.1 (64 bit) Thunderbird 45.7.1 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!"