schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1342arrow-down1external-linkGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-213 hours agoProbably performs a good burn-in for them too. Do people still do that? Used to be common practice to power on equipment and let it sit, either idle or full-tilt, for a couple days before even starting to configure it. Let the factory bugs scatter out.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours agoLandlord just got me a new washing machine. I’ve been burning it in since Sunday.
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·48 minutes agoI can tell your lieing, because your pants are on fire.
minus-squareEvacuateSoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 hours agoNever heard of that, interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-in
Probably performs a good burn-in for them too.
Do people still do that? Used to be common practice to power on equipment and let it sit, either idle or full-tilt, for a couple days before even starting to configure it. Let the factory bugs scatter out.
Landlord just got me a new washing machine. I’ve been burning it in since Sunday.
I can tell your lieing, because your pants are on fire.
Never heard of that, interesting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-in