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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My definition of refurb is anyone that actually has a store and only deals with this stuff. Examples are western digital themselves or Seagate, or shops like true base

[โ€“] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it's just typical capitalism stuff.

People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.