kingruudz opened the case and found the interior of the 1TB HD looking like this :
As you can see from the image, the company has cleverly included two metal rods in the container to give a feel and heaviness of a actual 1TB hard drive. kingruudz says that he was duped but he knows another person who had reportedly bought a container of these dud 1TB hard drives for $30,000. kingruudz’s reddit thread got overwhelming response from other redditors who had their own China stories to tell. Another user, turbotails noted another scam from China. He Bought it, and couldn’t get it to store his videos properly back in the States. Turned out, it was a clever bit of hardware and software ingenuity. The drive had a case and 2 bolts with a 512 MB flash drive on the inside. The firmware of the drive had been adjusted to make the 512mb drive think it was actually 500GB. When it would fill up with over 512mb of data, it would start erasing the oldest data. Thanks to indexing and hardy software playing, the program playing the video was able to pick up in the middle where the video, in its mind started—The reporter had assumed it was just picking up where it was last left off, and because of the indexing in the file, so did the actual video player. When you plug them into your computer, they actually report as 2TB. Of course, if you tried putting 2TB worth of data, you’ll be losing that data pretty quickly.
