This Hard Drive Deal is NUTS!

That shovel is pretty good. And there's the thing, if the Chinese want to make something good (a shovel for their own use) they can make something well. You can be sure their Maglev train isn't full of hotglue and bolts. My suit is quality stuff, and it was pretty expensive. Not as expensive as one made in Italy would be, but you still get what you pay for.

I have a 250 dollar Lenovo laptop that's great. Runs Eclipse and Visual Studio just fine.

...the new Bay Bridge from SF to Oakland was built in China, and the new dock cranes in the port of Oakland were built in China. They can make good stuff as well as anyone. Many of the companies making the best stuff are full up with the best people from around the world keeping an eye on things.

Hell, the Apple fanboys are all full up with "superior" Chinese goods.
 
Aluisious said:
You can be sure their Maglev train isn't full of hotglue and bolts. My suit is quality stuff, and it was pretty expensive. Not as expensive as one made in Italy would be, but you still get what you pay for.
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That's a bad example .. their maglev was stolen from the Japanese. They had Kawasaki engineer it and then promptly kicked them so they could make their own clone off of the plans. It has had numerous faults/issues because of the shoddy workmanship.
 
They still built it, and it works, and it's the longest and fastest track serving the public by far. Who has done better? OK.
 
BodyBagz said:
Care to expound on this? I cant think of a single item of US Issue gear I have that is Made In China...and thanks to Uncle Sam, I have roughly 3 duffel bags full of "gear"...
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I beleive he was referring to the fake electonics sold to the US Navy for use in Missle guidance systems and stuff. I read somewhere they had a big investigation into whether fake parts where being used in the construction of electrical systems being used and it turned out something like 2/3rds where fake electronic parts or something. I dont know the ins and outs but Im sure google can help you there.
 
What I think is even more sinister is the fact that there's some company out there manufacturing the computer chip that's inside this drive that will make the computer recognize it as a hard drive (albeit a non-functional one)...I just wonder how that conversation went down..."Uhhh, yeah, I need you to manufacture me some USB devices that will show a 500GB hard drive without there being any hard drive at all"...
 
When I went to china/HK last year, I didnt even bother looking at electronics and stuff since I knew there was chance of fakeness and paying overprice for the same item here.
 
morinaga666 said:
I beleive he was referring to the fake electonics sold to the US Navy for use in Missle guidance systems and stuff. I read somewhere they had a big investigation into whether fake parts where being used in the construction of electrical systems being used and it turned out something like 2/3rds where fake electronic parts or something. I dont know the ins and outs but Im sure google can help you there.
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http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/11/07/7323/counterfeit-chips-plague-pentagon-weapons-systems
 
Aluisious said:
That shovel is pretty good. And there's the thing, if the Chinese want to make something good (a shovel for their own use) they can make something well. You can be sure their Maglev train isn't full of hotglue and bolts.
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Its not intentionally counterfit, but it is made with substandard components in a work environment that has never heard of QHSE or quality control. Its just a cultural thing there and in most of SE Asia in my experience, which is why they work much better when managed by Western contractors.

The government remains a big problem though as well, and you can read some of the reports about the Three Gorges dam as it was rushed and cheaply constructed with no thought about the effects to the water table now causing issues during the drought and causing poverty and economic woes in many ports that can no longer support shipping due to the government wishing to use its creation for propaganda as much as practicality. And that's ignoring the obvious issues they had with so many uncompensated displaced people, loss of countless historic artifacts, pollution, and destruction to the environment/ecosystem... and that's assuming there isn't catastrophic failure from a natural event or war.
 
maboblivion said:
wow mind is blown.... looks like there are some wires for it to work.....
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They don't want it to appear DOA. They want it to appear just fine. typically it's made to show as the required size in Windows but only hold 32m or similar, or its wired to kind of loop onto itself, so as soon as it fills up it corrupts everything.
 
LOL, that reminds me of the days of Chinatown in NYC where if you think you bought some fancy piece of electronics for a great price, you might have gotten a box of rocks. :D
 
I saw an SSD with 2 big nuts & a thumb drive in it as well. They can fake anything.
 
I knew a guy back in the day that bought a Maxtor hard drive and got a dead WD MFM drive and a porn video instead :D I cracked up thinking up how he was going to explain that one to the store. It was an obvious reseal job because he said he opened up the shrink wrap.
 
Aluisious said:
That's not the Maglev :rolleyes:
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Perhaps not, but shows the amount of quality they put in the crap they make. You act like they fart rainbows and magic unicorn dust. What are you the Chinese Minister of Information? :rolleyes:
 
One day China will disappear with a few tons of sand left where it use to exist.

Bastards.
 
wfalcon said:
Perhaps not, but shows the amount of quality they put in the crap they make. You act like they fart rainbows and magic unicorn dust. What are you the Chinese Minister of Information? :rolleyes:
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No, I don't act like that. It's not my problem that you can't understand even the beginnings of nuance.
 
Aluisious said:
No, I don't act like that. It's not my problem that you can't understand even the beginnings of nuance.
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On the contrary - you're the only one that came in white-knighting the Chinese ITT. But hey, if obliviousness is your thing, have at it.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Looks like they really went through the effort and also tossed in a USB device in there so when you plug it in, it fakes the status of the device.
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Looks like a memory stick stripped down and glued in place, nice that they got it wired up though, bolts are there for authentic weight of old clunky seagate.
 
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