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Previously one of my Seagate 40GB IDE hardisk used on external drive suddenly blown away. Then i sent the hardisk for RMA claim due to still in warranty period. To my surprise, i sent through Skynet Courier on Monday evening. On Friday morning, i’ve received call from UPS courier man asked for my address. Wow, very fast services. Less than one week, i received another certified repaired hardisk.

We can see that for repaired/reconditioned hard disk, under the Seagate logo contains “Certified Repaired HDD”. For new hard disk, it do not has such wording. Therefore, from the HDD surface we can know whether the HDD is new or reconditioned. Recon HDD always used on custom external HDD. My brother is one of the victim… He brought a custom external 500GB drive at China… I couldn’t check the warranty status at all. Hence, this is one of the method where we can check the HDD condition without checking warranty status online.