Watch out for this ‘1.1 TB’ laptop scam on Amazon

Way back in the 90s, a program called SoftRAM claimed to double your memory without any additional hardware. It, uh, didn’t. (It basically just fooled the memory display and did nothing to improve performance.) I’m reminded of this flimflammery as HP laptops with “1.1TB” of storage pop up on Amazon and Newegg. The catch? 1TB of that is a OneDrive cloud storage trial, which ends after a year.

A Reddit poster documented several listings that showed “1.1 terabytes” of storage on budget HP Windows laptops.