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why would they swap in a 8 tb one thah still has value and not a idk 500g one and profit more ?

• pwinnski 6y ago
  I have a NAS that holds four drives. If I upgrade 8TB drives for 16TB drives, I would have no further use for the 8TB drives. I also don't have half-TB drives lying around.
  • disiplus 6y ago
    sure, but if you are a scammer then selling the 8T for at least 100$ and picking one for basically free would net you more profit. maybe it was somebody that did not think he does something wrong because "amazon is big and will eat the cost"
    • netsharc 6y ago
      Huh, honestly it'd be "cleverer" to find a broken drive (that the OS wouln't even detect) and swap it into the enclosure. Then the thief can say it was defective, or the next buyer would, and there would be less of a chance of an investigation/change of policy.
    • pwinnski 6y ago
      Agreed, a dedicated scammer probably has many options. I suspect this was just some person upgrading a drive, probably not a dedicate scammer.