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WD Red from China is it legit

You can’t fake a speed test. Resetting SMART is easy using pro data recovery tools. As for blue PCBs, I don’t believe WD drives ever used this colour.

Here is another test you could do:

How to determine number of heads using HD Tune:
https://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?p=1796#p1796

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