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$69 '16TB' eBay Drive Scam: Tiny Chip Pretends to Be Massive Storage - tech|
| (hx) 11:30 AM CEST - Jun,06 2026 | 
A X post is warning buyers about suspiciously cheap "16TB" external drives selling for just $69 on eBay — and the video inside reveals the classic scam.
**How the trick works:** Scammers take a tiny real flash memory chip (often just 4GB to 64GB, like a small microSD card) and put it inside a normal-looking external drive enclosure. They then reprogram (hack) the drive's controller firmware so the computer thinks it's a massive 16TB drive.
When you plug it in, Windows or macOS happily shows the fake huge capacity. You can write data up to the *real* small size without issues. Once you exceed the actual storage, the drive starts looping back and overwriting the beginning of the data — silently corrupting everything you’ve saved.
This is why these drives often pass initial tests but fail when you actually try to use the full advertised space. Tools like **H2testw** (Windows) or **f3** (Mac/Linux) can quickly expose the fraud by writing and verifying data.
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