These few months have been exceptionally cruel to consumers because of the AI boom, particularly those who have a need for all kinds of storage, both internal and external. The desperation in the air can cause buyers to make a truckload of mistakes, such as one individual who believed he scored big when he purchased three 32TB external drives, only to find out that none of them worked. Upon closer inspection, it was found that a microSD card had been hot-glued to the PCB.
The website’s name was omitted by Redditor “FishBrain208,” who says his co-worker purchased three 32TB hard drives from an online store. The price of each drive wasn’t mentioned either, but considering the customer purchased three of them, they wouldn’t have been too expensive. After finding out what he received, it was certainly a valuable lesson on what not to do.
Upon plugging each of the 32TB hard drives in, the co-worker said that none of them worked, so when prying open the enclosures, it was found that a microSD card was glued to a PCB. Firstly, to think that you could ever find even a single 32TB external hard drive at a reasonable price is downright impossible, because the DRAM shortage has pretty much ensured that memory and storage are out of reach for the majority of buyers.
Even right now, if you search online retailers like Amazon, an older Samsung T7 portable SSD with 2TB capacity is available for $389.34 , while a WD Elements external hard drive in the 24TB capacity is listed for $1,059.99 . Unsurprisingly, other Redditors aren’t displaying a shred of sympathy because even a slight amount of research would provide you with sufficient information on how much a 32TB drive costs in this day and age.
We expect more of these shady websites to pop up because of the DRAM crisis, and since these components will be out of reach for a large population, scammers will have easier targets in their crosshairs. Just make sure you don’t fall victim to their “once in a lifetime” offers.
News Source: Reddit
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