A Chinese Hard Drive

[obeygiant]

A customer walked into a Russian hard-drive repair center complaining about his broken 500Gb USB-drive. He had bought it dirt cheap in China but it had a problem. If you saved a movie to it, it would only play the last five minutes. They opened up the case and found inside a 128-MB flash drive working in looped mode. It displays the correct capacity when you plug it in but when you write to it and run out of space, it just overwrites the old data. Two nuts make it feel like it has the right heft. Crafty, crafty counterfeiters! Caveat emptor, if the price is "too good to be true," it is.

consumerist


Very Clever!

 

[ucfgrad93]

Wow, that is too funny.

 

[wordoflife]

Haha

 

[Merthyrboy]

That's quite a lot of effort to go to but it is at least decently done for a fake I suppose?

 

[Pink∆Floyd]

Only in China baby

 

[snberk103]

Looks like somebody got a really good deal on HDD cases, Flash drives, and nuts. "HHmmmm what can we do with these?"

 

[Lord Blackadder]

It takes nuts of steel to foist that kind of scam on the unwary buyer...