Walmart Caught Selling Fake Hard Drive That Just Shreds Your Data

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Walmart Caught Selling Fake Hard Drive That Just Shreds Your Data
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'This product is a scam, and Walmart should be ashamed of itself...'

That would be sleazy even on an obscure corner of the online electronics world. But as

, the giant retailer Walmart had started selling the scammy hard drive online, where buyers were expressing horror at the scheme.. "I thought I was buying a 8 terabyte SSD drive, for $28, and this piece of garbage does not work, in any way, shape or form. This product is a scam, and Walmart should be ashamed of itself to sell them."Redcated bought one of the hard drivers, and inside he found two microSD cards literally hot glued onto a circuit board.

However, instead of actually storing data, the cards only kept a copy of file names the user tried to back up, so everything looked fine until someone actually tried to access a file.

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