Suspicious Seagate drives

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One year ago, I’ve switched my faulty Seagate 2To Barracouda Green to a new HDD IronWolf 3To ST3000VN007 which in turn have errors and warnings detected by my QNAP 233 : read/write unrecoverable errors plus SMART warnings (197 Current_Pending_Sector, 198 Incorrectable_Sector_Count)
The other HDD in my RAID1 configuration is a Seagate IronWolf 2To ST2000VN004.
The faulty HDD has been refunded.

No luck or dubious drive ? I’ve readen that some sold Seagate HDD had an invalid serial number.
Did some of you encounter such a problem with Seagate drive ?
I point out that I bought IronWolf ST3000VN007 from YASIN INTERNATIONAL vendor at a “good” price.

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The manipulated drives in recent years were larger ST Exos drives. But those were much larger than the models you report of as they came from Chia coin farms