FAKE Western Digital Elements 2tb 2.5inch drives

[fzabkar]

The following was recently posted to WD's forum:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/FAK ... 7543#M9110

It is claimed that the HDD was replaced with a flash drive, and nuts and bolts were used to make up the weight.

[bcometa]

OMG that looks crazy!! HAHAH

[einstein9]

I have some doubt here about this issue really
how come, 2TB and very tiny small chip inside??

[Good Stones]

That kind of fake drives first appeared in Russia a year ago, maybe even earlier.

[BlackST]

Indeed...

[einstein9]

Good to Know really
thnx

[fzabkar]

That kind of fake drives first appeared in Russia a year ago, maybe even earlier.

chinese-ingenuity-t19049.html

[hddguy]

That refers to fake SSD, this is first time I ever see fake HDD

[selftest]

sold in China

[porthas]

I have first got to see these "fake" flash drives and hard drives come from China about 6 years ago, when my friend bought a 64GB flash drive on a street in Shanghai for $15. After filling the flash drive with about 500MB of files, it suddenly started acting like crazy, and files couldn't be retrieved from it. In the end, I found out that the flash drive was about 512MB, and they faked out the size of it. Same thing I saw people used to do with processors, faking out frequency. I have actually seen one of the fake flash drives come in for recovery. I do not believe recovery was successful.

[harddriverecovery]

Hilarious stuff.

I guess that sometimes you just get what you pay for.

[ShaneWard]

Well, at least they took the time to wire up an LED light...

[HaQue]

I had a friend that went with his girlfriend overseas around early 2000 I would guess. I cant remember now the location but I know they brought back many CDs with windows programs and playstation 1 games. She bought a camera there as a present for her mum. It was boxed and shrink wrapped. The box had rocks wrapped in newspaper in it, not even a fake camera.

On a side note, I still have one of the app CDs as a "momento"... I did a malware scan on it last year for fun and there are 9 infections! IIRC the CD is labelled "Official Software Windows" or something as dodgy.

It is amazing the stuff that happens out there