As ridiculous as the amount of scam ads on RU-vid? “He was a doctor who went to *Jones* Hopkins University and found a way to save customers millions of dollars, when he went to his superiors he was fired, so now he's bringing the product to you turning a multi billion dollar industry on its head..." Literally 97% of scam ads on RU-vid, and there's a scam ad 80% of the time ANY ad on RU-vid runs!
As soon as they're found out and banned, their name "Minyong" turns to "Jingsang" and they start over. That way Amazon can SAY they are doing something about it. In USA, it only takes a day to register a new fly-by-night business.
GenX still knows "If it sounds too good to be true, it is." Any time you see something for sale for less than half the market price, it's 100% a scam. Nobody is going to sell you a lawn tractor for $70.
There are rare occasions, but generally yes One case you can use for something being really marked down but still legit is when it appears they got a large number of second hand/old devices from some place upgrading their whole workspace That sort of scenario was where i picked up a normally 2.5k Wacom drawing tablet off of Ebay for $500 (it'd clearly had heavy usage but it also still functioned perfectly fine and was a great pick up thanks to it's sturdy manufacturing~)
True story: I picked up one of these external drives, and like the guy said, mine had two micro SD cards inside. Lol. But, that wasn't the best part ... They had actually glued a 3-in long screw, that was about a quarter inch wide, inside the case of the drive to give it weight. They had actually hot glued a giant screw inside the case to make it feel heavier. 🤦
It's not that uncommon. A lot of companies that manufacture mouse (specially gaming ones), do install unremovable metal weights inside just for the sake of being more "premium". Higher end mouses let you choose both the location and the weight of the metal thiniges. This practice is common across all industries though.
It depends, sometime and in most cases the filesystem just break and got corrupt, then sometime the data didn't get deleted but just corrupted (you cant open the file you need bc he's broken)
It technically doesn't delete the data, it just get sent to be "stored" in memory address spaces that do not actually exist and the associated error reporting is intentionally broken, without either you or your operating system being informed of this. That's how the scam works. But in effect it's not very different: Only once you try to actually access or read your files "stored" in that non-existant space, do you become aware that something is wrong. The data isn't corrupted, it's just fully and irretrievably gone.
Obvious Copyright cases like putting another company logo on your product have more severe consequences than pure tech scam. Because Samsung will make sure a scammer will be bankrupt and criminally prosecuted, they have skyscrapers filled with lawyers to make that happen.
The fact that so many of these are on Amazon makes Amazon complicit in my opinion. I mean, this problem has been going on for YEARS! How about if a vendor is caught selling bullshit like this they lose their account. That'll put an end to this issue pretty quick I bet. Ridiculous that this is STILL going on. More than 20 years in my experience.
The amount of people that think Amazon should be allowed to just let ANYONE in as vendors, with absolutely ZERO blowback on scammers is sickening. Amazon are happily taking a cut from the scammers stealing your money... How the fuck can you be such mouthbreathers that you DEFEND that bullshit?
Amazon doesn't make it easy or possible to fish out scammers and allows them to still sell on their site. They have needed to expect sellers to verify their address and list that country or region. Also the ability to report, suspect or post reviews or questions that expose them isn't easy or possible. Also many items for sale by chinese that have reviews and ratings from other products.
@@naxzed_it if it presents as a single 16tb while having 2 8tb stripes, that's a win/win. Reads and writes in parallel from each. Of course, assuming the controller could do that. A USB attached device is probably limited by USB speeds. But a RAID0 striped with multiple paths can be faster than a single drive of the same size.
There would be no way anything under $80 could ever have 16 terabytes, I got the 16 TB hard drive from Western digital but I had to pay $200 on a sale or more
@@wblazkowiczYou're full of crap. It's like 100$ for a 1tb m.2 SSD. The only way it's less is if it's on sale. If it was 50$ I would have bought an extra one to put in my PS5 by now.
**** It's one of thousands, as a Prime Customer and exposing some they locked me out of reviews entirely. The First scam is that Amazon Prime "offers" are not genuine, I have kept my account and use it to show that the free shipping is an option in both none and Prime. The "Prime" hike the price to cover the shipping.
I found a "2TB SSD" on Amazon for $20. I figured it was almost certainly a scam, but I could just figure out its actual capacity and reapportion the drive appropriately, and if I couldn't, I was only out $20. It turned out to get glitchy at 32GB and also it's a lot harder to change the size a storage volume claims to be than I thought. I ended up just partitioning it into a volume the size it really is and a do not use-fake volume for the rest. But it's still corrupting files so I assume some of the fake addresses are in the real volume and some real addresses are in the fake volume. Now it's a $20 paperweight.
IIRC, one YTer warned that the Chinese SD cards masquerading as something else (a thumb drive in his case) can have malicious software/firmware on them, so plug in with caution.
There's actually a software that u can download on your computer that can change the size that is shown for a storage device. I use to have it on my computer a few years ago
How much did you pay for it? The only one I found on Amazon with what you said is around $120, so that's pretty on par with name brands like Samsung's 980 pro right now.
These SSDs erase data once it goes over the limit to trick you as long as possible. People trust them with precious moments of their lives. There should be real jail time for producing and selling these.
Bro in pc you need at least 256GB-8TB of storage 120 is too low cuz around 40 gb is taken for storage and 20 gb is taken for other things, that leaves you with a 60gb space which can only handle 4 popular games
Dude, what happens if you actually try and write 16TB to the drive? There used to be a thing with USB sticks that was similar, they advertised 250GB storage when the max you could buy was around 16GB if you were loaded. If you copied your media to the drive, anything beyond the available space was immediately erased, I think it was essentially creating a RAM disk that was de allocated on eject.
From what I recall, you're just writing data in a loop. It'll just keep writing data from beginning until end of the disk and writing over what was already there. It basically causes corruption at any amount higher than true capacity for that reason
Yeah, it just starts overwriting older filed. But since it keeps them in index, they'll still show up Only when you try to access them, they'll be corrupted and unreadable.
I think they misread the actual English word before making this, or are trying to evade detection, because from a distance, the "m" looks like a closely spaced "rn".
We need much more exposure of these ILLEGAL scams. Everybody caught out like this should gather their evidence and have their payments processor make a chargeback claim. I do and received full refund of 83 euros yesterday, anothe claim is processing now...
Pro tip, counterfeit EEE products can sometimes have malware on them. Always best to bench test in a properly secured environment. An older PC you don’t mind getting bricked for example.
Isn't the greatest war we can start with these scammers is to start a campaign and get hundreds if not thousands to buy these, wait for delivery and then file for return because it's not 16tb as advertised? This would cause a huge loss for Amazon and maybe they start filtering these dumb things out.
There are sadly people that don't listen to reason even after multiple times to not buy these cheap and complain after they know it's not what they bought. Go for your local online shops if you want one.
A class action lawsuit might get them to take the situation a little more seriously. All the fake accounts and products that aren't real, there's definitely a case there.
It's git zip drive conversion software makes memory look larger but actually just fractures you information until it can't be recognized anymore. Garbage.
"16TB" это просто ловушка, это сделано чтобы если кто то подал на них в суд за клевету, они просто скажут то что это название, и покажут то что 120gb написано мелким шрифтом на задней части коробки
