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 data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/seagate” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/seagate”>Seagate external hard drive — or at least thought they did — and received a hollow drive with barely anything inside.
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