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SAS HBAs can be had for fairly cheap if you want to expand the range of options available to DIYers. Then Samsung and Kioxia have 30TB options in 2.5" form factor. The price tag is spicier than $40 by two orders of magnitude though.
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Well, yeah.
However, I would not put that in the category of "regular drive".
(looking over at my NAS array, that I could mash together into a single 80+ TB volume)
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Since the cheapest real 1TB SSDs are currently around $60, anything under $40/TB is effectively guaranteed to be a scam.
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Hi folks. I am the person whose tweet thread this article is about.*. Twitter threading is absolutely awful, so many of you might have missed the reply where I explain that I am a cybersecurity researcher with a proper lab including properly airgapped machines, VM's, and forensic gear. Even so, I took additional precautions beyond our normal ones, because I suspected this device might have some malware I have never analyzed or observed before. In fact, I was a bit disappointed to see that it was relatively unsophisticated firmware with no indicators of any APT.
This was a silly and fun little project I did with my teenage son to show him some of the ways you can investigate suspect hardware. I absolutely did not mean to imply you should try this at home.
* (moderators please feel free to validate this via the email address I just verified for this new forum account- it is on the same domain as is in my Twitter profile, and my Twitter DM's are also open)
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This is 100% correct. But the people who read Toms Hardware are more technically sophisticated and savvy than 99% of the general population. Most computer users do not know the difference between a megabyte and a terabyte. We take it for granted because we see and use these terms every single day. But there are a lot of people who would fall for scams like these (which are absolutely nothing new, I remember when even floppy disks were sometimes dishonestly marked as double sided, double density when the actual product was tested and certified for neither.
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The actual tweet thread opens with these exact words :
Have you ever heard the expression “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”? Well AliExpress is currently advertising a 30 Terabyte SSD for $29. And I just had one delivered. Let’s open it up, shall we? /1
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not all are so generous. Often its just 1 sdcard slot. They must have had a stack of doubles that cost almost as much to put in as the singles. It wasn't done for the customer
as my post that USAFRet linked to said, you can't buy 16tb ssd now so 30tb is way out... I seen 900tb ssd advertised. People have no idea what max sizes are.
At least one of those 3 things actually exists. You can get 1.5 tb sdcards, though I doubt they are that cheap. They only just released - https://www.techradar.com/news/worl...-can-store-more-than-one-million-floppy-disksEdit I got scammed for 2 one terabyte SD cards 2portable drives and 2 thumb drives, I am a looser with very bad luck. Please see photo
USB drive way out, biggest real one is 1tb
Good that article exists, make more people aware of the problem, slightly less who will get effected. But these things are everywhere now. Flooding market.
I like some of these descriptions
choose a size... its like a lucky dip but the trick is you get none of the above. But its only $44 so you might be lucky. Totally believable.
why would anyone pay several hundred for a drive when they so cheap on internet...
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The big story here is the big ecommerce folks allowing large item sales by scammers with zero track record in selling items.
It's bad enough that the every day electronics at amazon often don't even meet their published specifications. Worse when you're offered product choices that are clearly scam products. These drives aren't a new thing on amazon. I rarely buy from walmart, so I can't comment on that.
It's bad enough that the every day electronics at amazon often don't even meet their published specifications. Worse when you're offered product choices that are clearly scam products. These drives aren't a new thing on amazon. I rarely buy from walmart, so I can't comment on that.
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its amazing what you can find on Ali Express though. I just found a laptop with 1000 gb of ram... i am aware thats impossible but anyone silly enough to believe anything on their site, might not.
Seems fake drives top out around 60tb now. Only 15x the actual size of largest external ssd. Not bad going there.
Just as well IT professionals have some idea what they doing as search Google for 100tb drives and I get
and there is a small difference in prices. You could buy 2 external 60tb drives for 44 $AUD each or pay about 7k AUD for 100tb and still be "short".
When an actual 100tb Exa Drive costs 40k USD, the chances of a 44 $AUD drive having over half of that are really really small.
these fakes may not be on more trustworthy sites yet but its just a matter of time.
Seems fake drives top out around 60tb now. Only 15x the actual size of largest external ssd. Not bad going there.
Just as well IT professionals have some idea what they doing as search Google for 100tb drives and I get
and there is a small difference in prices. You could buy 2 external 60tb drives for 44 $AUD each or pay about 7k AUD for 100tb and still be "short".
When an actual 100tb Exa Drive costs 40k USD, the chances of a 44 $AUD drive having over half of that are really really small.
these fakes may not be on more trustworthy sites yet but its just a matter of time.
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Hope you reported the vendor. If Walmart would keep the money for 30 days for newer vendors these types of scam might reduce.
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Sorry if this sounds harsh, and I am not trying to insult anyone, but when it comes to tech stuff, the old saying comes to mind:
"Cheap is as cheap does" - Forest, Forest Gump (well sorta anyways!)
And fyi, yes, I buy a lot of things at wallyworld too, but tech stuff aint one of them
"Cheap is as cheap does" - Forest, Forest Gump (well sorta anyways!)
And fyi, yes, I buy a lot of things at wallyworld too, but tech stuff aint one of them
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Thanks. And if I was Walmart I would order one and send it to to a randomly chosen tech reviewer. Walmart could also train a spam filter to identify similar junk.
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The prices shown on the SSD always show the price you pay for smallest size. So 70 cents is probably for a "4tb SSD" whereas if you open the link, and click on the image of a "16tb SSD" you get the higher price
From what I can tell, the only people with a 1tb SD Card that is real is Sandisk and all the ones in your photo probably just photoshops of it - https://www.westerndigital.com/en-a...disk-extreme-uhs-i-microsd#SDSQXAV-1T00-GN6MA
That V60 on the cards would be the simplest way to prove its lying as that is its minimum transfer rate. V60 = 60 mb/s minimum -
that and there are no 1tb V60 drives yet. Most V60 cards are around 256gb still
So its a bald faced lie what is stamped on these things, shame its up to the consumer to discover it.
From what I can tell, the only people with a 1tb SD Card that is real is Sandisk and all the ones in your photo probably just photoshops of it - https://www.westerndigital.com/en-a...disk-extreme-uhs-i-microsd#SDSQXAV-1T00-GN6MA
That V60 on the cards would be the simplest way to prove its lying as that is its minimum transfer rate. V60 = 60 mb/s minimum -
You are being redirected...
www.lexar.com
So its a bald faced lie what is stamped on these things, shame its up to the consumer to discover it.
Depends on what you mean by USB hard drive, I have several WD external drives that connect via USB that are multi-terabyte in size. Yes, I saw another article that warned of these being scams.Stay away.
No more "real" than one of these:
Info - Buyer Beware - 16tb or larger External/Portable SSD/USB drives are fake
You currently cannot buy a real 16tb external SSD or any USB drives larger than 2tb, at all. They don't exist. But if you look on almost any retailer now they show you ssd that are labelled 16tb, 30tb or larger still. These are all fake. Same applies for any USB flash drive bigger than 2tb...forums.tomshardware.com
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External hdd can be multi TB. That is a known fact, can get 18tb external hdd.
But not external ssd/nvme of that size range yet.
that is the point of article.
But not external ssd/nvme of that size range yet.
that is the point of article.
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Really? Seems to work for me. Plugged it in, formatted it, took a while but I got it done. All I see here is a lot of anti China BS and not a lot of evidence. 29296.86 GB available after format and it's definitely a USB 3.0, and no, I'm not chinese, I'm portuguese. It seems a formerly reliable site like this one is loosing credibility over bigotry. Shame
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I would suggest you test the drive with one of these programs
whatsoftware.com
what they say they have may not be real. The controller lies. The flash just writes over top of itself. Its speed is a clue too.
Just because you can buy them doesn't make it real.
its hardly your fault.
the real biggest USB flash drive is only 2tb now - https://www.techradar.com/news/excl...y-dollar190-and-delivers-ssd-like-performance
as for ssd, you can get a 32tb ssd for as cheap as USD6200 - https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/pricing/ - I assume yours was around same price?
www.techradar.com
Fake Flash Test: 7 Free Tools to Check Real Capacity
Counterfeit computer products, including flash memory storage, have become increasingly common in recent years. While all types of flash memory storage,
whatsoftware.com
what they say they have may not be real. The controller lies. The flash just writes over top of itself. Its speed is a clue too.
Just because you can buy them doesn't make it real.
its hardly your fault.
the real biggest USB flash drive is only 2tb now - https://www.techradar.com/news/excl...y-dollar190-and-delivers-ssd-like-performance
as for ssd, you can get a 32tb ssd for as cheap as USD6200 - https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/pricing/ - I assume yours was around same price?
Largest SSDs and biggest hard drives of 2023
The SSD, tapes and hard drive titans of the storage world brought together
www.techradar.com
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