kingruudzs reddit thread got overwhelming response from other redditors who had their own China stories to tell.
Another user, turbotails noted another scam from China.
[]459 points1 day ago
It is.
There was a article a bit back from a reporter who saw a SSD for a stupidly low cost.
He Bought it, and couldnt get it to store his videos properly back in the States.
Turned out, it was a clever bit of hardware and software ingenuity.
The drive had a case and 2 bolts with a 512 MB flash drive on the inside.
The firmware of the drive had been adjusted to make the 512mb drive think it was actually 500GB.
When it would fill up with over 512mb of data, it would start erasing the oldest data.
While, neoform said that he was duped similarly when he bought couple for 2TB USB drives from China.
Of course, if you tried putting 2TB worth of data, youll be losing that data pretty quickly.
Therefore it is worthwhile to buy such gadgets from China from reputed companies only.
source: www.techworm.net
