wilkingj
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:33 PM |
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Beware of Cheap Hard Drives
AS per the title:
Linky
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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blakep82
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:38 PM |
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christ! the chinese do my nut with this fake rubbish they make. making decent stuff is all well and good, but this is just a disgrace!
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McLannahan
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:41 PM |
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If that's a picture of the actual fake though I see no way of how a USB is connected to standard sata connections without some sort of
adapter/pcb?
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blakep82
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
If that's a picture of the actual fake though I see no way of how a USB is connected to standard sata connections without some sort of
adapter/pcb?
i guess it was sold as a samsung external usb drive, i've got some, and they only connect with usb, of course, its a standard laptop hard drive
inside, and all the sata connections are in there
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PSpirine
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:44 PM |
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Nice nuts
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:47 PM |
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Seen a few 64 gig flash drives that were actually 32 gig.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 05:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
If that's a picture of the actual fake though I see no way of how a USB is connected to standard sata connections without some sort of
adapter/pcb?
i guess it was sold as a samsung external usb drive, i've got some, and they only connect with usb, of course, its a standard laptop hard drive
inside, and all the sata connections are in there
You're right Blake! Just googled and found some more pictures!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 08:43 PM |
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The cheap crappy laptop power supplies you get on eBay are a bit like this. The transformer is so tiny (and horrendously under-rated) that they stick
a slab of steel inside the PSU case to make it feel as heavy as a genuine one. Of course it fails within hours and then you discover the truth when
you crack it open.
Messing with the file allocation table to miss-report the drive size is a Chinese favourite, millions of MP3 players and flash drives etc. have been
sold like this.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 11/4/11 at 11:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
christ! the chinese do my nut with this fake rubbish they make. making decent stuff is all well and good, but this is just a disgrace!
Hey if people insist on buying cheap carp, then they have to deal with the consequences of cheap carp... I'd like to go for the "If it
breaks we'd like to know why you hit it with a tank" guarantee though
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