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Hi @Alt,
Thank you so much for your responses, it was good to learn more about that and was ultimately helpful in getting an Amazon return and, with any luck, shutting down the scam seller.

All the best,
Dax.

Here are a couple screenshots. Note the pattern in the recovery graph.

Hi there,

I have a new hard drive bought from a seller who had one bit of negative feedback claiming a used drive had been sold as new and its S.M.A.R.T. data had been reset. The drive I received looks spotless and the bag was sealed (but bag sealers are easy to buy, of course...)

I decided to ...