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amazing deal... is it real?
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heh watch it turn out to be like that recent article on slashdot - where the drive caddy had been hacked to hold a 128mb flash drive instead of an actual HDD.
Magical Chinese Hard Drive - Slashdot
"From TFA: 'A Russian friend .... works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town, located near the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a customer brought a broken 500GB USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.' Apparently, the contents of the external HDD box included: two nuts, glued to the inner surface of the box with a 128MB flash drive wedged between them (image
edit: i love how google is a better search engine for slashdot than slashdot's own engine...
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It is surely going to be fake. The picture itself isnt his as you can see the watermark from the second img. The Chinese paper under the HD also backs it up.
If you still want it, just ask him to take real life pics of it.
As agies said, watch out for deceiving practices as illustrated by the pic below
Ebay in general
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