As Israelis, we suffer from a genuine paradox.
We refuse to be suckers at any cost — and that's exactly why it's so easy to fool us with things that *look* cheap when they really aren't.
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China is the country that produces more junk than any other on Earth, and when it comes to electronics, China breaks records like no other.
On AliExpress you can find external hard drives with completely fantastical storage capacities, in designs suspiciously similar to leading brands (Samsung T5/T7, SanDisk Extreme, and WD My Passport).
The manufacturing process for electronic components like these is extraordinarily complex and expensive. It takes place in dust-free cleanrooms — even cleaner than operating theatres — using highly precise lasers and large, costly machinery.
Cheap electronics are low-quality products that, in the best case, end up in the bin — and in the more common case, turn out to be outright fraud.
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In the photos you can see a hard drive purchased by a Reddit user from AliExpress for just $12, advertised as having 10 TB of storage capacity.
Inside the "hard drive" — a clumsy knockoff of the Samsung T5 — was a tiny, no-name microSD card with a very small actual storage capacity.
The seller uses custom firmware to make the computer display a storage capacity of 10 TB, but reality is far from it.
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Don't cut corners on electronics — it will cost you dearly.
And most importantly: don't buy electronics from China.
image source:
reddit (RuckinScott)
aliexpress