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Fake SSD and flash drive scams are spewed all over the Internet, so I investigated one!
And it’s worse than I thought.
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My Thoughts
Recently, I got to see one of these fake portable solid state drives (SSDs) in person when I was trying to back up Ms. Z’s data from her hard drives to one of these fake portable SSD drives.
She did not realize that it was fake when she bought it, but I had my suspicions; even though I was not sure how much she had paid for it, other than she said that it was under $100.
It looked exactly like the fake portable SSD in this video, except it was claiming to be 2 TB instead of 8 TB.
It had no brand name on the box or the device itself, which made me even more suspicious.
The copying files to this device process stopped at a certain point with an error message, some of the data did not seem to copy over, and some of what did copy over was corrupted.
Microsoft Windows 11 said that there were errors on the drive, so I let it scan and try to fix them.
The process took longer than normal, and it showed no progress until it was done.
I asked Ms. Z to send me a link to the Amazon page where she bought it from, so that I could see if my suspicions about it being fake were correct or not.
It was only $17 when she bought it, by a brand called HanvinZT on Amazon, do not buy anything from this brand, especially this fake portable SSD which is still on Amazon.
I knew that there was practically no chance that this was real at those prices.
I downloaded a portable program that can test what the real size of a drive is.
This program showed that it was really only 50-something GB instead of 2 TB (2,000 GB), so it was indeed a fake.
Like in this video, it probably was a SD memory card instead of a SSD, so that is two layers of fakeness.
It is unacceptable that obvious fake drives like this are still on Amazon et cetera.
The end,
- John Jr
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