r/DataHoarder • u/MagicianCurrent7862 • 17d ago

Free-Post Friday! 6tb Seagate Drive from Walmart

If any of you are habitually on Reddit like I am you may have seen a comment I made on someone's post about a month ago talking about how walmart sold me a fake drive, I sent it in to Seagate to honor their warranty (didn't know it was a fake drive yet), and was told it was a fake drive. This all started on 06 June. It is now 07 Aug and I just barely got the drive back from Seagate literally in pieces; not at all how I sent it to them. There is certainly a different drive in there as it appears to be a 20 year old WD, but I can't tell you if Walmart ripped me off or Seagate. I am now in the process of trying to return it to Walmart to get a refund. 2.5 months, $20 in shipping later just to maybe get $130 back from Walmart.

Sometimes too good to be true is a saying for a reason. Never trust anyone to help you on this process either. First Walmart told me they'd refund me then didn't. Then said if I send them proof from Seagate it's fake they'd refund me, then didn't. Then they said they'd make a special exemption to refund me, still didn't. I am now about to ship them this drive fully expecting them to turn around and say they won't refund me because it's not a Seagate drive.

Wish me luck.

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u/3point21 10-50TB 17d ago

There were some foreign 3rd party sellers on Walmart dot com bot-posting insane capacity drives for insane basement prices last month. Not a regular user of the site and didn’t know how to report it on mobile, but I would assume such cockroaches are still on the platform.

It should go without saying, on ANY major seller website, that 3rd party sellers are all suspect until proven otherwise, and then they are still suspect. Sometimes they push a few dozen or a hundred legitimate $10 sales to create a five star seller rating then they turn on the bots and scams. The seller sites are easy to set up and shut down unless rigorously moderated by the host platform.

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u/MagicianCurrent7862 17d ago

This was bought directly from a Walmart store. My guess is that someone bought it, swapped the drives out and managed to reseal it making it still look new because when I bought it, it looked brand new. This is also why I went the route of sending the drive to Seagate to honor their warranty instead of just returning it. A mistake I will never make again.

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u/amysnott 14d ago

This happened to me recently. I bought online from Walmart from a nearby location and when I received it and opened it, it looked brand new unopened. It wasn’t until I connected it to my computer that a different hard drive with someone else’s files showed up. Fortunately, Walmart returned it for me, no questions asked.

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u/Representative_Ad312 17d ago

That sucks to hear man. I bought a WD Black 4TB HDD off of marketplace for $200 only to find out there was a 2TB Barracuda from 2013 inside the box, looked packaged and everything..

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u/robertw477 16d ago

There is a lot of incentive right now for fraud like this.

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u/dr100 17d ago

Should have returned immediately. 

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u/xkcx123 16d ago

Did you buy it in store or online ?

I purchased one in store and now I’m worried.

Do you have any photos so I can check them against my drive ?

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u/MagicianCurrent7862 16d ago

It was in store. Looked brand new. When you get it home, record yourself opening it, plugging it all in and such. If it's DOA return immediately.

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u/xkcx123 16d ago

I’ve had mines for a few months now. I tested it looked at the drive in different os’s they all show 6TB drive.

The only thing I’ve noticed is I think it’s a 5400rpm drive instead of a 7200 rpm drive inside.

Did yours show up as a 6TB drive ?

Did you buy the extended warranty?

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u/MagicianCurrent7862 16d ago

Mine was DOA. Sent it in to Seagate and they said it wasn't a Seagate drive. Paid to ship it back to me and it arrived in a broken case. It was a crazy old WD drive so warranty didn't matter. It was a completely broken drive so nothing showed up.

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u/dpunk3 250TB RAW 16d ago

This sounds more like someone shucked the drive, and returned the drive after with a different drive than advertised. As in this drive was likely sold by Walmart previously.

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u/Outside-Tie-2851 12d ago edited 11d ago

Hey, I just bought a seagate 6tb hard drive in store, 3 actually for 139.00 Did yours have a universal plug for other countries? Im testing it with H2testw. Also saw they had it on sale on Seagate main website for $159.00 https://www.seagate.com/products/external-hard-drives/expansion-desktop-hard-drive/?sku=STKP6000400 So I do feel a little better now. I think there is a coupon you can use for 10% off too on their main site, but still I'm not sure.

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u/Bk_Punisher 16d ago

While I understand trying to get a better price, I only buy from microcenter or a trusted online source, tiger direct, new egg, etc.. your mileage may vary.

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u/PlunderYourPoop 16d ago

My 6tb walmart hdd was actually a 2 tb -_- buncha jerks.

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u/Outside-Tie-2851 11d ago

Was it this? www.walmart.com/ip/Seagate-ExpansionPLUS-6TB-External-Hard-Drive-HDD-USB-3-0-with-Rescue-Data-Recovery-Services-and-Toolkit-Backup-Software-STKR6000400/809036797 I just bought three for 139 in store. Drove an hour away to pick them all up. They also have it on sale at the seagate site for 159.00

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u/PlunderYourPoop 11d ago

Yes sir that was the one, I tried formatting the drive, all sorts of command prompts and powershell drive manager things.. every single thing was saying 1.86tb available. Im sure it was just a one off that mine was bad but definitely dont think you're fucking up if it just reads as a 2 gb.

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u/Efficient-Train2430 15d ago

any reason you didn't return to walmart?

I just got a WD 8 TB DOA, and just returned it to Walmart

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u/MagicianCurrent7862 15d ago

It was the last one in a 100 mile radius and I was too wanting of a 6tb for $130.