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Archive 2022 · FAKE SSD's

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · FAKE SSD's

Seen on DPR. A pair of one TB SSD's jiggered to read as 15 TB.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/0798552385/psa-be-careful-of-weird-ssd-listings-online-they-could-be-sd-cards-inside-an-enclosure

Sep 04, 2022 at 08:49 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · FAKE SSD's

I saw those on Amazon a while back. Only the clueless would fall for the capacities. Years ago tools like H2testw were developed to identify bogus USB flash drives and the scam continues.

EBH

Sep 04, 2022 at 09:53 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · FAKE SSD's

EB-1 wrote:
I saw those on Amazon a while back. Only the clueless would fall for the capacities. Years ago tools like H2testw were developed to identify bogus USB flash drives and the scam continues.

EBH

Why should even the clueless suffer from fraud? Did you report this to Amazon? At least wallyworld pulled the ads.

Sep 04, 2022 at 10:31 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · FAKE SSD's

I was tempted to see what it was all about, but there was nothing to report since I did not buy any. I can't find that one now.

EBH

Sep 04, 2022 at 10:55 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · FAKE SSD's

Walmart pulled the ads. The article did not mention Amazon IIRC.

Sep 05, 2022 at 02:32 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · FAKE SSD's

I mean..$17? What do you have to lose....

Sep 05, 2022 at 10:42 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · FAKE SSD's

$17.

Sep 06, 2022 at 06:54 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · FAKE SSD's

Actually you can lose way more than $17. The SD can carry malicious software and once you plug it into the computer, can cause way more damage, and steal whatever you have saved on the computer too.

Sep 06, 2022 at 09:30 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · FAKE SSD's

Point taken, for those that don't know how to manage computers.

However, I doubt they could steal much given the small capacity of the SD cards.

EBH

Sep 07, 2022 at 12:18 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · FAKE SSD's

tctmp wrote:
Actually you can lose way more than $17. The SD can carry malicious software and once you plug it into the computer, can cause way more damage, and steal whatever you have saved on the computer too.

That being said any memory device or data transfer method like just being here is fully capable of introducing code to do nefarious work anywhere anytime.

Sep 07, 2022 at 02:17 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · FAKE SSD's

So for $17, you get 2 free SD cards, some glue, an enclosure + free software

Sep 07, 2022 at 07:27 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · FAKE SSD's

those are 2 micro SD cards in that "device". really?!

Sep 07, 2022 at 07:42 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · FAKE SSD's

sjms wrote:
those are 2 micro SD cards in that "device". really?!

Quoting that article
When Ray received the drive, which he purchased via a similar listing on AliExpress,
he took it apart to find out what was going on, and it was about as bad as one might expect.
As shown in a Twitter thread, Ray found two glued SD cards inside the enclosure,
which looks like a typical portable SSD

Sep 07, 2022 at 09:11 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · FAKE SSD's

yes they are of the SD variety but in fact are microSD. just a point of reference.

Sep 07, 2022 at 09:29 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · FAKE SSD's

saaketham wrote:
Quoting that article
When Ray received the drive, which he purchased via a similar listing on AliExpress,
he took it apart to find out what was going on, and it was about as bad as one might expect.
As shown in a Twitter thread, Ray found two glued SD cards inside the enclosure,
which looks like a typical portable SSD

That's one of the reason why I purchase from reliable source. When a on-line site starts to offer third parties it cast doubt of the of true of a product, especially when the price is more then half the price.

Sep 07, 2022 at 09:47 AM

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sjms wrote:
yes they are of the SD variety but in fact are microSD. just a point of reference.

Oh you'e nit-picking .. got it

Sep 07, 2022 at 11:01 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · FAKE SSD's

if you are going to try to give info try to give it accurately. 2 standard SD cards couldn't fit on that board. you'd be relatively happy i nit-pick in what do i used to do

Sep 07, 2022 at 12:07 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · FAKE SSD's

Why did they even bother with two SD cards if it is fake anyway?

EBH

Sep 08, 2022 at 01:18 AM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · FAKE SSD's

I doubt they were even 1 TB given these prices on amazon.

Sep 08, 2022 at 10:35 AM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · FAKE SSD's

runamuck wrote:
Walmart pulled the ads. The article did not mention Amazon IIRC.

Here is an example of a bogus 8TB SSD still for sale on the Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/DOBACNER-Portable-External-Storage-Transfer/dp/B0BC5NNH79
Buy it - I dare you!

EBH

Dec 26, 2022 at 04:12 PM

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