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This article is missing the only piece of useful information I was looking for. What is the true capacity of the drive?

• axiolite 4y ago
  "two 512MB Flash drives" https://nitter.net/RayRedacted/status/1563021492157579264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://nitter.net/RayRedacted/status/1563021492157579264?re...
  • bergenty 4y ago
    Holy shit, how is this good enough for Walmart?
    • Cyberdog 4y ago
      In case you missed the other subthreads… This isn't being sold by Walmart themselves; they're just acting as the storefront for a third-party seller, as Amazon and NewEgg do.
• mathgeek 4y ago
  The Ars article that Tom’s referenced from has that info: > Scammer gets two 512MB Flash drives. Or 1 gigabyte, or whatever. They then add hacked firmware that makes it misreport its size.
  • ryanschneider 4y ago
    I’m curious why they bothered to add two microSD cards, but I wonder if that somehow actually makes the hack easier? Like maybe the firmware only needs to be patched in one spot to report a fake size when running in “RAID” mode?
    • prmoustache 4y ago
      Because they count on the fact that transfer rate is so slow people will really realize this too late. I guess this kind of business create an account on amazon, aliexpress and others, scam thousands of users for a month or two, close their accounts, create a new one before they get annoyed by disputes and everything.
    • jetbalsa 4y ago
      and might be able to get the boards cheaper, if they are old stock left over and easy to hack. then why not
    • numpad0 4y ago
      Maybe this is built on an existing, legitimate product that require both slots to be populated to work?
• sys_64738 4y ago
  I browsed the twitter comments and appears the FW is hacked to report this incredible amount but when it writes then it's overwriting multiple times. It's also USB 2.0.