Definitely seems to good to be true
Definitely seems to good to be true, the advert is American but this is from China.
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Definitely seems to good to be true, the advert is American but this is from China.
This scam company offers 16TB external SSD through ads appearing on Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon for low prices £32.50 GBP ($30–$80 usd). This is a widespread scam.
These drives are actually 64GB–120GB micro SD cards or USB flash drives with manipulated firmware, causing computers to falsely report 16TB capacity.
They often corrupt data once capacity is reached, offering abysmal speeds.
How the Scam Works: The drive's controller is programmed to report a fake 16TB capacity to your operating system. When you copy files over the actual capacity (e.g., over 120GB), the drive loops over itself, deleting older files to make room, leading to massive data loss.
Performance: These drives are incredibly slow, with tested read/write speeds of only 15 MB/s, which is 30 times slower than legitimate SSDs.
I purchased one myself as part of my 'drive' to expose fake products and I conducted a teardown which revealed that in my case, the device contained only a small, cheap Micro SD card inserted into a USB converter!
IT DID NOT CONTAIN 16TB of NAND flash storage!!!!!
These drives are often sold both fake branded and unbranded and listed through misleading ads on Facebook, YouTube, and sometimes via third-party sellers on Amazon.
Do not purchase these items, a 16TB of solid-state storage typically costs £400-£500, NOT £32.50.
It's a misleading illegal scam.
They claim to have a 1000MB/s (1GB/s) through a USB port. Why 1GB/s?? If they are using USB 3.0 this technology has a 5 Gbps transfer rate, so why not advertise their device as having a 5 Gbps transfer rate? USB 2.0 only has 480 Mbps transfer rate, so they would have to be using USB 3.0 or higher. Their advertisement makes no sense. Plus 16 TB for only $44.00. Come on. It would cost twice that much to produce it. Then there is the standard mark up costs for shipping and distribution. Only a gullible fool would believe this crap.
16TB hard drive is a total scam you have up pay over £1000 for just 10TB SSD so it’s all false.
once they start having negative reviews they change their name on YouTube and YouTube allows them because of the advert revenue just remember 99% of YouTube videos adverts are total scams
AVOID
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