Walmart sells fake 30TB hard drive that’s actually two small SD cards in a trench coat

[Kent Sharkey]

Vice[^]:

A cybersecurity researcher bought the same item from AliExpress and took it apart. Walmart removed the hard drive after Motherboard contacted the company.

Caveat emptor: hard drive edition

[jeron1]

Quote:

“I knew going in it would be a scam but I thought we might use it as an educational opportunity,”

Sure, that's what they all say.

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

[Bernhard Hiller]

Hmph. Just do a product search for large hard drives on ebay. You'll find many such scam offers.

Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

[Daniel Pfeffer]

Given that SSD drives typically cost between US $50 to US $100 per TB, anyone believing that a 30 TB SSD disk costs less than US $20 is almost begging to be cheated.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.