• Darren
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    34 days ago

    My manager ordered four “4TB” external SSDs from AliExpress a few weeks back. He paid £60 total for them, delivered.

    My Sus alarm started clanging, so I grabbed one off him and ran some tests on it.

    After a couple of days of the tests chuntering along, I ended up reasonably convinced that they’re - at most - 40GB. And even at that capacity they’re useless, transferring at around 10MB/s

    • @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Yeah, in my last IT job I tried to get my manager to run the big purchases by me first. Eventually he started to see why.

      (He was a good manager, just not a huge hardware nerd)