Zerowait receives NetApp components from a variety of sources.Testing and recycling electronic components is fairly common in the business and NetApp has been doing it for years with their RMA parts – here is a link to an article on their efforts. – http://www.zerowait.com/docfiles/supplychain.pdf.

Zerowait’s policy with drives when we receive them is to zero & sanitize them and then test them completely. We warranty what we sell, and we recognize the critical nature of the data that our drives contain once a customer put them in their filer. Therefore, we need to be very careful. We make certain that everything is tested prior to shipment also.

Best regards,
Mike
http://www.zerowait.com