Unlucky buyer purchases external Seagate HDD, gets an SD card glued inside a plastic shell

Fake hard drives have become more common over the past decade or so, as online marketplaces have connected third-party sellers and buyers. That’s exactly what happened to Reddit user u/BulyudiPorti, who purchased a Seagate external hard drive — or at least thought they did — and received a hollow drive with barely anything inside.

datahoarder from r/DataHoarder/comments/1nykjtr/fake_seagate_external_drives

As seen above, the user opened the drive only to find a small circuit board driving a microSD…