Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by prashnts on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:40PM (#23943622)

Interesting. I tore one down recently. It was a gift for my nephew but didn't work out of the box. Well, it did "work", as in, it identified as genuine controller; had all "real stuff" look, but buttons skipped, lagged, or just didn't work.

The insides revealed a mix of genuine components (probably off of scrap?) and an assembly-line quality bodge-work. (I didn't take any pictures, but I still have it -- so I can post some pictures if anyone's interested.)

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by opless on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:13PM (#23945775)

Certainly would like to see this also;

Would be quite good content to let other places know too - hackaday for example.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by prashnts on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:57AM (#23947951)

I took a few pictures and uploaded them here [1].

I recall that I'd already de-soldered a few components (for the salvage-drawer!) and cleaned the awful flux residues so the my pictures look much cleaner than how it was when I opened it [2].

It still turns on though, so I might end up doing more digging into it. I'd add whatever I find in the repo soon.

Hope that this is useful for "reasons"!

[1] https://github.com/prashnts/mods/tree/master/devices/dubious...

[2] https://github.com/prashnts/mods/blob/master/devices/dubious...

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by stordoff on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:41PM (#23945228)

I would certainly be interested to see this.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by prashnts on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:59AM (#23947959)

I posted some pictures and linked it in sibling comment.

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