Counterfeit HDDs are flooding the market — here's how to spot one
An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). After reports of hard drives used for Chia cryptocurrency mining being sold as new came out, Seagate recently seized around 700 counterfeit hard drives in Malaysia.
- ▪An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows.
- ▪When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh).
- ▪After reports of hard drives used for Chia cryptocurrency mining being sold as new came out, Seagate recently seized around 700 counterfeit hard drives in Malaysia.
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| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:30:16 GMT |
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