A Reddit user shared an amusing story about getting what you pay for. Allegedly, his colleague spotted a promotional deal and ordered three external hard drives advertised as having 32TB of storage capacity all at once. However, upon receiving them, he found that none of the drives worked. After opening the casing, he discovered that instead of a complete hard drive, there was just an ordinary microSD card glued onto the circuit board. He didn't disclose the store's name or the price of the drives, but buying three of these fake drives certainly taught his colleague a valuable lesson.
Incidents involving counterfeit products like this are nothing new; some unscrupulous merchants frequently sell cheap hard drives with actual capacities far lower than advertised. However, in this case, the scammers didn't even bother to pretend—they simply stuffed a microSD card into the device and passed it off as a 32TB hard drive.
With rising prices for memory and storage devices, such scams may become more common. Therefore, experts and users alike recommend carefully verifying the seller, the device's actual specifications, and user reviews before purchasing hard drives with unusually large advertised capacities.