As was to be found in the article description does not indicate that it is second-hand goods, I'm first starting from a new device. The statements in the recessions this were not clear, some complaints about second-hand goods, but others seem to have actually received new disks.
Out of the box but it was already clear that one has caught Gebrauchtware. Sticky spots on top of the hard drive, and in Junperfeld a crooked pin. Although no existentially important pin, but here it's the principle.
Have nevertheless subjected to a functional test, the hard disk. Basically, it is said that the function of the hard disk is apparently good. No running noise, no bad sectors, so there is definitely before a star upwards.
Da me but also interested in how long the disk was already in use, I tried the data with smartmontools read, with the following result:
9 Power_On_Minutes 494h 41m +
And because the Maxtor values should probably be flawed and reset at 1000 hours, I've pushed it past a self-test, with this result:
# 1 Short offline 51831 Lifetime (hours)
That is, assuming the SMART data is reliable, that the delivered disk was already almost 6 years in operation. And therefore I can forgive only 1 star + 1 Star for otherwise seemingly good condition.
Had there been in the product description an indication given that it is used goods, I might have rated differently, but it can only give this result.
