minus-squareHotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyztoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farmslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 days agoProof-of-storage based cryptocurrency. The article says when it became non-profitable, the drives were reset so their smart stats would appear new, and sold them as such. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network Edit: FWIW, site says you can check the FARM values with smartctl -l farm /dev/sda if you do have a Seagate drive. linkfedilink
Proof-of-storage based cryptocurrency. The article says when it became non-profitable, the drives were reset so their smart stats would appear new, and sold them as such.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network
Edit:
FWIW, site says you can check the FARM values with
smartctl -l farm /dev/sdaif you do have a Seagate drive.