I just got this 4 terabyte external hard drive for only $35. How do the big brands get away with selling the same thing for $200+??
I just got this 4 terabyte external hard drive for only $35.
I just got this 4 terabyte external hard drive for only $35. How do the big brands get away with selling the same thing for $200+??
>4 terabyte for only $35
No, you didn't.
Ok wtf it says 2 terabytes. Still not a bad deal...
Does it look like this on the inside?
I don't want to open it and void the warranty. How is it supposed to look?
Probably something like this. Fakes one just have a USB stick or SD card on the inside.
Mine looks just like that except it's red. And it has some weight to it so I'm sure the inside is similar.
SSD's are very light. Those are probably lead bricks glued in to make it seem heavier.
You should check to see if the first 20gb of data you wrote to it still exists.
unironically like this lol
That case is that big so you can mount it in SATA bays though.
Yeah it looks silly but the alternative would make it less useful.
There's no need to mount an SSD. If it was smaller you could plug it directly into the mobo
Enjoy your vibrational data distortion.
sure but unless your sata cable is perfectly straight the bits and bytes will fly straight off it like a car cornering at high speed in the rain
Wrong. Modern ssd controllers slow down the data before bends in the cable so it won't go off track. But it is also true that you can achieve higher troughput with straight cables.
>his data doesn’t jump out of the cable at the bend and land at the other end to save time
ngmi
It's still nicer to properly mount it than to have it dangling.
And pretty much any case made in the last 15 years has something you can mount that on, so might as well use it.
you can just get an adapter tray for hdd mounts on amazon even if there's not a proper bay
why mount it? Get some tape stick it to anywhere
>void the warranty
>selling fake stuff is illegal
lmao, you have to be 18 to post here
It should have at least 4 bolts and a substantial amount fo hotglue
Proper ones contain a circuit board about the size of the shell. Instead, that one contains:
>4 wires
>a USB port
>a USB stick that's probably not actually 4 TB
>2 bolts so it doesn't feel like it's empty inside
>hot glue to hold everything in place
Bonus, since there's 4 wires connecting the USB port, we know it's USB 2 so it'll max out at around 30 MB/s, probably significantly less since it's a crapass USB stick. A real SSD on USB 3 can transfer data at more than 100 MB/s.
>void the warranty
Wouldn't want to risk your $35 bucks, would we?
I didn't get to 7 figure net worth by throwing away money.
I have no idea what I'm looking at.
A 64 gb sd card in a card reader
>I didn't get to 7 figure net worth by throwing away money.
Well you did until you bought that lucky scratch off ticket.
OP just ignore everybody in this thread, they are jealous that you got a really good deal on a portable SSD. I actually use this exact drive for all my important data at work when I need to take it home with me, so it's great to see you got an amazing deal on this too.
going to need to watch the board to see if he falls for this lol
this is literally the reason i buy 2.5 internal hdds and just use enclosure. i'm too paranoid of this shit now. ssds were a mistake, you cant fake an hdd and the noise it makes
>2.5 internal hdds
Why not 3.5 ones?
In my experience working as the only "IT guy" in a small company even the budget 3.5 are more reliable than your average 2.5
Had dozens of the small ones dying on me, only a couple of 3.5
3.5 once often require external power source as they 12v and need special enclosure that might not even work
2.5 once were designed for laptops so they can be more stable too as 3.5 once too fragile for tiniest of bumps or even uneven surface
Its true that 2.5 are more shock resistant, but neither would get damaged by bumps or uneven surface.
As for power, I have this cheap little guy sitting on my desk 24/7. It has a power cable and werks with everything I've thrown at it, aside from some dying 2.5s that had to be connected internally for them to be recognized by the os for subsequent data recovery.
Honestly theres a huge market for "22tb" "hard drives" that are actually just filled with cheap metal, a motor spinning at 7200rpm, and an sd card connected to a sata transposer chip. Hell put a few sd cards with a hardware sd raid controller in there and you're still beating seagates margins (and reliability)
It's almost certainly fake, the 2TB is just the firmware lying. You can test the real capacity with https://h2testw.org/
No shit. They're all in China so there's no repercussions.
Lol, no, that's not right. It reports 2TB, but it can't hold that much. I had a fake USB flash drive like that. It even corrupted the data that it was able to hold.
have you put anything on it? 141gb overhead seems a bit much otherwise.
are you retarded...? you stupid naggers you know selling a fake product is illegal right
not where people source these products like alibaba and resell them on ebay by the time normies notice its passed the refund period
>he thinks there's anybody checking for fake products
I think a trillion dollar market cap company can afford to pay people to take down fake products...
They don't do it until people have already complained. There is nobody screening things coming into a warehouse from China.
You also must know that Amazon gets most of its money from vendors in different fees and subscriptions. They don't give a fuck if people are being sold fake or dangerous stuff unless it's a strong liability. If they tried too hard to keep these things from being listed they would lose a lot of revenue.
open it up you got a 128GB thumbdrive or microsd
your is probably 16-128GB and just overwrites the storage once it gets full (and doesn't tell you).
So it LOOKS like 4TB to your OS, but the physical storage is a fraction of that and it just overwrites old data if you try to fill it with more than it has.
nigga you bought a 32gb included microsd to sata adapter
I'd fill it with 2TB of movies and then see how many i can actually watch from it.
>How do the big brands get away with selling the same thing for $200+??
Theirs actually stores 4TB.
https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3
"f3 - Fight Flash Fraud
f3 is a simple tool that tests flash cards capacity and performance to see if they live up to claimed specifications. It fills the device with pseudorandom data and then checks if it returns the same on reading.
F3 stands for Fight Flash Fraud, or Fight Fake Flash."
i dont know of any precompiled trustable windows crapps so youre on your own and what google tells you to trust but iirc that f3 is made by some popular youtuber that called it out
good thread
Because you bought a 2GB flash drive with malware on it 🙂
Is that versik? Ive heard its a total scam. Doesn't work and they are a chinese company so you can't even get your money back. DId yours work?
Here's what you got.
>How do the big brands get away with selling the same thing for $200+??
They're lying and cheating to trick you. Par for the course, but for all intensive purposes, looks like you beat them at their own game. Look what foot the shoe is on now. Salutations.
run an f3 flash fraud scan on it you're in for a surprise
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Oh no no no no no
Finally a good Black Friday bargain.
Kek, is OP a newfag?
you and rest of fags iit are. this bait happens often.
Thanks for the (You)s
Shiggy diggy
bro after viewing this thread I just found out my "2tb seagate external hdd" was a fucking scam as well, stopped working after I transferred like 100gigs to it where the transfer rate stalled, then windows stopped recongizing the device, and the port doesn't even work anymore lmao its this stupid as weird micro usb shit fuck me just opened a dispute with paypal (I bought it on ebay) used it for not even an 2 hours
checked the item and yea many negative reviews saying its fake product
seller's store "sold out" too, dissapeared