Fake internal HDD

[pomkon]

Can there be fake internal HDD? if the serial number on the HDD matches the packaging. PC recognise it as the correct volume. 

Can you tweak the HDD firmware and tricks windows recognise it as a larger capacity or different model number?

[MorganO]

4 minutes ago, pomkon said:

Can there be fake internal HDD? if the serial number on the HDD matches the packaging. PC recognise it as the correct volume. 

Can you tweak the HDD firmware and tricks windows recognise it as a larger capacity or different model number?

why

[Godlygamer23]

Yes, but when you try to write to the non-existent space, Windows will get an error.

[pomkon]

2 minutes ago, KOMTechAndGaming said:

why

I dont want to get scammed.

[pomkon]

6 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Yes, but when you try to write to the non-existent space, Windows will get an error.

but it is not an easy task? very few people can do?

 If the HDD label SN matches the packaging SN. It being fake is improbable? 

[Godlygamer23]

6 minutes ago, pomkon said:

but it is not an easy task? very few people can do?

 If the HDD label SN matches the packaging SN. It being fake is improbable? 

Do you have some sort of concern that something you purchased is fake?

 

[firecrafter711]

10 minutes ago, pomkon said:

I dont want to get scammed.

You're more likely to find this sort of scam on SD cards where it's much simpler to just put a  sticker on and do a similar process

[pomkon]

11 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Do you have some sort of concern that something you purchased is fake?

 

get some NEW toshiba enterprise hdd for a good price. Randomly check the SN of 1 hdd with the distributor and confirm its a genuine SN. they are still new and plenty of warranty left

but the seller blocked me and it was suspicious

[Windows7ge]

16 minutes ago, pomkon said:

but it is not an easy task? very few people can do?

 If the HDD label SN matches the packaging SN. It being fake is improbable? 

Faking drive capacity is more of a real life issue when it comes to thumb drives. Thumb drives are more popularly not labeled with their capacity so people will buy a 4 or 8GB stick, hack the firmware to say it's 128GB or 64GB then sell it for $30~50. I can't say I hear of this issue with hard drives but I suppose it's possible.

 

If I was buy a drive from eBay or a sketchy vender and it was cheaper than the capacity warrants I'd be more concerned as to weather or not the drive functions rather than if the firmware was hacked.

 

When it comes to thumb drives there is software that can test and write to every single block of memory the drive says it has. When the "legit" capacity is reached older blocks will start being written over. When the software stops writing data it will tell you how many times the drive wrote over itself. This indicates weather it's truly its capacity or firmware hacked. I don't know if the same test can be performed on hard drives. It may work on SSD's though. It'd be very write heavy so it might reduce the SSD's life expectency, kind of like defragging an SSD.