Welcome to today's episode of "You Get What You Pay For," starring some poor sap in Russia who bought an external hard drive in China for a "very, very low price." It seemed like a bargain, until the schmo noticed that video files were picking up from the tail end, as if the preceding footage had vanished. When the folks at a local repair shop tore the disk apart they found a dinky 128MB thumb drive running in a loop, emptying itself when full only to start saving more data. Laugh all you want, but the repair guys (and us, frankly) are still scratching their heads as to how those scam artists pulled off this mod in the first place.
[Thanks, David S.]
Rogue modder rips off stingy consumer, puzzles repairmen... all with a USB thumb drive originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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