Walmart lists a 30TB portable SSD for $39. It is, naturally, a scam

This is not new. I remember back in early 00’s my buddy bought hundreds of 512mb mp3 players in China for local resale and only accidentally figured out that they were 64mb or so. The most interesting part was that they <i>played</i> songs, but different ones than those listed in the catalogue! That was one in a million chance to notice. When he went back to the shop, the seller already started packing his boxes. Luckily he was with a guy who knew a thing or two about negotiations so they got their money back eventually.

The retailers should be liable for stuff like this. A fake SSD isn&#x27;t going to kill anybody, but there are lots of cases where people have been injured or killed by substandard products to the point of counterfeiting regulatory symbols.<p>I don&#x27;t even understand how these products get imported.

&quot; This is another giveaway; Windows reports drive capacities in gibibytes (1,024 mebibytes) or tebibytes (1,024 gibibytes), while drive manufacturers use gigabytes (1,000 megabytes) and terabytes (1,000 gigabytes). This is why a 1TB drive normally only has a reported capacity of 930-ish GB,&quot;<p>Another vendor another scam. I am looking forward when they will sell 64 bits processors with only 60 bits. But with SaaS everything shall be possible.

I bought one similar fro Ebay for curiosity but then was afraid it might contain some kind of malware on it. If stores allow products with fake specs, they would allow malicious ones as well. This is a bigger concern to me.

I&#x27;d not necessarily call it a scam; your money is safe. It&#x27;s a hassle for sure and mentally stressful - if it does not work or dies soon - you might end up pulling your hair and running for return