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August 28, 2022 06:57 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/08/28/walmart-selling-cheap-30-terabyte-ssd-and-it-is-of-course-a-scam.html
Walmart selling cheap 30-terabyte SSDand it is of course a scam
To anyone clued in to the tech, Walmart's "M.2 Mini Solid State Drive"'s 30 terabyte capacity and cheap price immediately mark it as a scam. Also offered on Ali Express, the gadget is a mix of crude and cunning fakery aimed at less savvy shoppers: the hardware is two hotglued SD cards with a misreported capacity, and the firmware maintains a fake directory structure created by your activities even as it continually overwrites the actual data. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/08/28/walmart-selling-cheap-30-terabyte-ssd-and-it-is-of-course-a-scam.html
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