On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/17/14 12:58, Tim wrote:
There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did
have the previous owners data on them.
Do you have first hand knowledge of this or is this something you've just heard
about?
The reason I ask this is I have a friend that worked at WD in the HD
manufacturing and refurbishment area a few years back. I had asked him about
this very same thing. He indicated that WD had very strict quality control and
he couldn't think of a way it would pass through their processes with previous
data still intact.
Or, maybe you're talking about cases where the drives aren't actually going
back to the manufacturer?
Well, it's been reported a number of times. See, for instance:
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/1525212/ask-slashdot-how-to-deal-with-refurbed-drives-with-customer-data
I've bought "refurbished" *computers* with data on them -- though it was clearly not the drive that was
"refurbished." There are still a lot of small computer stores, particularly in rural areas, that spiff up
older boxes and sell them at a discount, and there are vendors at those things they hold at the state fairgrounds now
and then who show up with piles of old laptops they sell for a song. Those are all sold as "refurbished,"
but pretty much really mean "we vacuumed the keyboard and replaced the broken power connector."
billo
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