The distributor who supplied the “pulled drives” is CSSi, the online retailer is ComX Computers
CSSi is a data recovery company
HGST (Hitachi) was sold to Western Digital in 2012, Amazon.com sell them as [Renewed]
Don't know how a hard drive can be Renewed...thought it is either new or used...
You can add HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) drives as well to the list
Had a bad experience with 2 x 2TB HGST drives, was going to use the drives as replacement for my NAS
Did tests with GSmartControl on both drives, just to realise that the SMART diagnostics was tampered with, the...