Just opened my external HDD and found this inside

has an app that analyzes the drive to reveal the real size.

Got a 1 TB USB stick from China. Cheap. Turned out to by 8 GB. Fair price for 8 GB. I really expected it was fake. "Did it live up to your expectation?" - I could only answer "Yes".

aliexpress? temu? amazon?

That is what you get with ridiculously cheap external hard drives and SSDs. The same thing has been happening for years with, for example, very cheap 1TB SD cards that actually show up in Windows as 1TB, but overwrite themselves after 64GB of data. You get what you pay for.

Somewhere in China, someone's car tires are wearing unevenly.

That's what you get from buying shit from TEMU when the pricing is too good to be true, because that's usually indeed the case

I've always found it amusing that these fakes have precise and clean metals instead of random junkyard scrap.

Turns out technophile means exactly what you think.

Very hard drive

so that 4tb hdd for 20$ was a scam? NO WAY