On Feb 22, 2025, gene heskett wrote: > On 2/21/25 11:42, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > That was 2+ years ago, and 2T's were brand new. > > With a lot of emphasis on the "+" I guess, since I bought my first 2½" > > 2TB HDD in 2012. > > > > > > Stefan > I was shopping in the 3.5" drives at newegg IIRC, 2T was the biggest, and my > 3rd woof died in 2020, and those were bought after she passed, sometime in > 2021 or 2022. For $129/copy IIRC. They both just disappeared off the end of > a sata-iii cable within 36 hours of each other with only 2 weeks spin time > on them.. NOS for sure, marked as made in 2014, so they were at least 7 > damned years on somebody's shelf when I bought the pair of them. But it took
I've never seen newegg sell "new" stock that's that old (in terms of manufactured date) . Sounds like you bought "used" stock off their marketplace ... -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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