• HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Don’t forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

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      3 days ago

      My manager ordered four “4TB” external SSDs from AliExpress a few weeks back. He paid £60 total for them, delivered.

      My Sus alarm started clanging, so I grabbed one off him and ran some tests on it.

      After a couple of days of the tests chuntering along, I ended up reasonably convinced that they’re - at most - 40GB. And even at that capacity they’re useless, transferring at around 10MB/s

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        3 days ago

        Yeah, in my last IT job I tried to get my manager to run the big purchases by me first. Eventually he started to see why.

        (He was a good manager, just not a huge hardware nerd)