Found this on Amazon. 16TB SSD for $139 (and can save 10% with coupon brings it to about $126)
What do you think I would receive if I ordered it?
https://www.amazon.com.au/External-Hard-Drive-Portable-Compa…
16TB SSD External Drive - $139
glenn955 on 09/06/2023 - 20:53
Last edited 09/06/2023 - 21:24 by 1 other user
Last edited 09/06/2023 - 21:24 by 1 other user
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a much smaller slower ssd
Sold by
xilonggongyinglianIf you can read that, means it's legit.
I can't….
Racist! :P
Fake SSD's are extremely common on Amazon. Linus Tech Tips did a video about it recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOhLlvNlI20
and prior to that Arstechnica did an article about it.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/64gb-microsd-cards-a…If you're wondering what's inside that enclosure, it's either 2 kids in a trenchcoat, or just a low capacity SD card or USB flash drive that's been hacked to report a false capacity in your operating system. Any data you write beyond it's actual capacity gets Thanos-snapped into oblivion.
It'll also be really slow, like USB 2.0 speed slow.
LOL @ 'Thanos-snapped'! Funny term!
All 5 star reviews, all on 30th of May :)
Same - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/64gb-microsd-cards-a…
Only 4 reviews though. Another clear example of why reviewers can't be trusted.
I mainly use it to save photo data, but it reads faster than expected and is light, compact and easy to use.
Yikes, poor Alison.
You'll get your time wasted and a scam/fake product.
I don't understand the business behind this. Would they just receive a bunch of returns and end up losing money?
Maybe a percentage of the funds will be cleared to the sellers account (2 weeks?) and withdrawn.
Amazon foots the bill under the A-Z guarantee when there isn't enough left in the sellers account to cover.It usually takes customers a while to realise they have been scammed by fake sized storage devices. They try it out, it works. They put data on it. And can read it. Its only when they put more data on it than its real capacity is, and try to read back the old data, and find its not there any longer because its been over-written, that they realise. By then the seller has their money, and has moved on to a new scam.
No-one who is uninformed enough to buy it think to try to fill up the drive as soon as they get it to ensure its size is genuine.
if its too good to be true