You bought 16 tuberculosis. :/
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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Why not called it eastern digital?
Western Digital vs Eastern Analog
It looks legit
Would be a good upgrade to my Ailenwear gayming laptop.
Gayming is based ngl
TIL
Yoo we got queer esports???
I was as surprised as I was happy to know it exists, even if I never remember to watch it.
A suggestion - plug it into a USB SATA adapter/enclosure and check it with ValiDrive: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
(unless you're just going to return it without opening the ESD bag)
Why though? On the hope it’s an actual WD? But what purpose would that serve as most likely something has been messed with to make it cheaper. Or maybe from the same WD manufacturing line?
Curiosity, mostly. And yes, it could be a "factory second" labeled for local sale.
A SMART report would be interesting too. Perhaps it's a relabeled old drive.
@stumu415@lemmy.zip Actually, thinking about this a little more, it's possible that you have a used data center drive which was pulled due to test failure. Data center drives get replaced all the time when they show any minor signs of failure, or sometimes just because they reach a certain number of operating hours, even if there's no issue. If the capacity checks out, and SMART shows minor issues or just long operating hours, this might be an entirely usable drive (in an array with some redundancy).
may be a fake, may be a refurb that was relabeled and they don't speak the language so they didn't know the difference and sold it as new claiming that it is a China Only version.
I think you might be right.
Yummy!! 16 Tender Bites?
Close: Tesseract Bytes.
It arbitrarily hides some of your data based on some asshole's petulance.
probably a heavily used/worn down second hand item relabeled and reflashed
But still 16 TB?
there are programs to check if the capacity is real. these are usually made to identify faked usb flash drives but it can probably be used here too
