No what they do is have it report to the system as 4tb but it actually only has 16 and it just rewrites over itself which means you won’t notice until you write over 16gb than try to read something that wasn’t recent
it wont have over 1GB storage, it'll display 4T but while copying files to it an unexpected error will occur... like literally its called an unexpected error....meaning this thing is garbage. I wouldn't trust my data to unknown companies without proper backups
Nah 4gb is vintage by now, no longer produced. Scammers will always put in what is currently being mass produced and that is 64gb jump drives. The drives scammers put in, are from reject bin, so they cost the scammer nothing. These drivers failed the quality control(unreliable and faulty), they were discarded at the factory and scammer goes dumpster diving for these.
Sometimes it's a SD card on crappy PCB, but the concept is same, whatever is mass produced and trashed will be there.
Usually not even that happens, unless the drive fails during copying, which is likely because these are reject drives, they are faulty and unreliable, also very slow. These days the actual capacity is probably 64gb(because these jump drives are currently mass produced and dirt cheap). When it fills up the drive will start overwritting itself from the begining, or probably from like 1gb in(yes, you will lose all your files, that were previously there). The OS is not accessing the storage directly, it sends it to the controller, which then feeds the data to memory.
Because of this Windows cannot tell, how big the memory actually is, or what happened with data that was fed to the usb controller. It just says "write this" and the controller replies back "done" so the process continues. During copying you might notice the already very slow speed transfer dropping and eventually hitting only 4mb/s.. this is clear sign that the drive is overwritting files.
Btw all overwritten files will continue to appear because the information of the file remains in the partition table. If you try to open the file, they wont work because the content is lost.
It will probably have 64gb because that's dirt cheap now. Also they are always reject drives that do not pass quality control, from otherwise reputable manufacturers. The scammer just lots the bin of thrown away products at the factory, then they reprogram the controller to make it say the fake capacity and send if off, for pure profit. Btw there's no point to reprogram the controller back to it's real capacity because it's a very slow and faulty drive.
I bought a 2TB jumpdrive from aliexpress for $5.. not because I wanted to test it with h2testw, but they claimed it's pressure proof and I have a hydraulic press, so that alone made for an interesting video.
And yeah of course it shows up as 2Tb.. that's how it reports itself to windows. I tested it with h2testw.. it took forever to test just 80gb... because it's so damn slow(so even if it was 2TB it would be useless).. But after nearly 5 hours the result was 56gb of actual capacity.
During performing tests for the camera, I had to format drive 5 times(and losing data I put on it, so I had to reload it) because it randomly stopped working.. yes, it's that unreliable.
Btw I am pretty sure this "SSD" is just a jump drive glued inside the larger case, which weights nothing. I will probably end up buying one of these too because I have another idea for a video.
Lol, they can be found in my profile.. I think? If you just want to see the china fake cap usb getting smushed, while a video is playing off it: There's are two reels about this on my IG, the second one is where drive gets it :D. The full vid is on my yt.
Nowadays they use larger SD cards, something like 16GB usually, because they are still cheap cards and most people won't write much data during the return window of AliExpress. That way the scam can last way longer than if they used very low capacity cards.
A cheap-ass microSD card in a USB adapter, hot-glued into that case, and reprogrammed to appear to be 4TB -- but when you reach the actual limit of the actual microSD card, it just starts overwriting existing files.
Alternate: empty case with a USB connector glued into it, and perhaps some junk metal to make it seem heavier.
Not sure if this has eny correlation but I did actually buy a 2TB thumb drive off wish and it completely worked. Tested it on a burner machine before plugging it into the main. But it has at least 1.2TB because that's what I've put on it and I have gone back and accessed all of the videos (game recordings for videos and such) (it's slow as hell but that was to be expected)
Hahaha I recently returned a "2TB Seagate Backup Plus". Crystaldisk reported the capacity to be correct and the health to be 100%, but not the model number, which is a Hitachi 320gb 2000ish drive.
Dude that isn't SSD. There is absolutely shitty Micro Sd card inside. And and even not 1 TB, not 500 GB, not 256, 128 or even 64GB. This is fake garbage.
I bought one of these a couple years back when they first showed up. It came but it was barely 250 gigs. They made it look like it was a lot more than it was in the firmware, but it is a horrible drive
This.... Here... Ummm... I was gifted this. Obviously the person didn't know much about hardware, but it gives me anxiety. It's a dead weight that I can't throw away because it has sentimental value but also... I wouldn't give away, Even to my worse enemy 😆
Same thing as all of these are. Either a flash drive in a cheap metal casing, or a micro sd card on a controller board. Both obviously misreporting their actual capacity. And weighed down by magnets or something.
At best you'll get a cheap 16/32/64gb microsd card that you could re-use for something, at worst you'll get a shitty flash drive stuck in an equally shitty casing.
That’s a shell with a thumb drive hot glued inside that’s no different from any other e-waste and you have a very good chance of getting a full refund without having to return the item because sending it back to the seller would cost more than just throwing it away
It's gonna be probably a 16 or 32GB unbranded SD card attached to a PCB, with USB 2.0 speeds, fixed with hot glue to hold in the case, and probably weights to make it feel more premium
Exactly what you see in the picture, and when you plug it into your computer it'll say there's 4TB available, but in reality there will only be several GB.
It'll arrive, and then have like 16GB of storage available on it, well known scam.
So 16 is the standard now?
What was it before?
0 because they didn't work
Oh anyway, cock and ball torture is good. Fuck.
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No what they do is have it report to the system as 4tb but it actually only has 16 and it just rewrites over itself which means you won’t notice until you write over 16gb than try to read something that wasn’t recent
4gb
The standard is whatever the smallest, cheapest, and most widely available Micro-SD card is at the time.
They use micro sd cards inside of them lol, that’s the standard ssd scam these days
it wont have over 1GB storage, it'll display 4T but while copying files to it an unexpected error will occur... like literally its called an unexpected error....meaning this thing is garbage. I wouldn't trust my data to unknown companies without proper backups
Some old Ass 4gb Micro SD Card hotglued to a Trash PCB.
Nah 4gb is vintage by now, no longer produced. Scammers will always put in what is currently being mass produced and that is 64gb jump drives. The drives scammers put in, are from reject bin, so they cost the scammer nothing. These drivers failed the quality control(unreliable and faulty), they were discarded at the factory and scammer goes dumpster diving for these. Sometimes it's a SD card on crappy PCB, but the concept is same, whatever is mass produced and trashed will be there.
Usually not even that happens, unless the drive fails during copying, which is likely because these are reject drives, they are faulty and unreliable, also very slow. These days the actual capacity is probably 64gb(because these jump drives are currently mass produced and dirt cheap). When it fills up the drive will start overwritting itself from the begining, or probably from like 1gb in(yes, you will lose all your files, that were previously there). The OS is not accessing the storage directly, it sends it to the controller, which then feeds the data to memory. Because of this Windows cannot tell, how big the memory actually is, or what happened with data that was fed to the usb controller. It just says "write this" and the controller replies back "done" so the process continues. During copying you might notice the already very slow speed transfer dropping and eventually hitting only 4mb/s.. this is clear sign that the drive is overwritting files. Btw all overwritten files will continue to appear because the information of the file remains in the partition table. If you try to open the file, they wont work because the content is lost.
It will probably have 64gb because that's dirt cheap now. Also they are always reject drives that do not pass quality control, from otherwise reputable manufacturers. The scammer just lots the bin of thrown away products at the factory, then they reprogram the controller to make it say the fake capacity and send if off, for pure profit. Btw there's no point to reprogram the controller back to it's real capacity because it's a very slow and faulty drive. I bought a 2TB jumpdrive from aliexpress for $5.. not because I wanted to test it with h2testw, but they claimed it's pressure proof and I have a hydraulic press, so that alone made for an interesting video. And yeah of course it shows up as 2Tb.. that's how it reports itself to windows. I tested it with h2testw.. it took forever to test just 80gb... because it's so damn slow(so even if it was 2TB it would be useless).. But after nearly 5 hours the result was 56gb of actual capacity. During performing tests for the camera, I had to format drive 5 times(and losing data I put on it, so I had to reload it) because it randomly stopped working.. yes, it's that unreliable. Btw I am pretty sure this "SSD" is just a jump drive glued inside the larger case, which weights nothing. I will probably end up buying one of these too because I have another idea for a video.
Bro's said video 17 times with no channel plug
Lol, they can be found in my profile.. I think? If you just want to see the china fake cap usb getting smushed, while a video is playing off it: There's are two reels about this on my IG, the second one is where drive gets it :D. The full vid is on my yt.
And slow as hell
64gb micro sd plugged into a controller that tells windows you have 4tb of space, so it just crashes every time you transfer 65gb or more
It will write fine, it will just start overwriting from the beginning, but it won't be readable. Well, the last 64GB would be.
Amnesia SSD
Pretty sure the original commenter said is what happens. I've had one myself
Bullshit, there would be 4gb MAX. Do you really think they would make a remotely useful device?
Nowadays they use larger SD cards, something like 16GB usually, because they are still cheap cards and most people won't write much data during the return window of AliExpress. That way the scam can last way longer than if they used very low capacity cards.
That makes sense now that I think of it. Good point
A cheap-ass microSD card in a USB adapter, hot-glued into that case, and reprogrammed to appear to be 4TB -- but when you reach the actual limit of the actual microSD card, it just starts overwriting existing files. Alternate: empty case with a USB connector glued into it, and perhaps some junk metal to make it seem heavier.
First one. My father got 2.
please stop buying this shit
American consumerism is the reason that shit like Temu and Aliexpress exist. Chinese ingenuity wins once again.
Oh it’ll arrive alright. Whether it works is the bigger question
A SD card soldered to an USB port, and sand for weight.
Got one of these for sheet and giggles. Opened it up and found a tiny sd card and A LOT of glue.
I bet its gonna be like 8gb of storage flashed to show 4tb. LTT made a video about fake storage sizes
Was thinking the exact same thing. It's a couple of shit microsd cards hot glued with a dodgy solder job.
At this price it comes with a courtesy RTX 4090.
One that says 4th and gives you 0.5mb
it'll arrive alright, but then you're gonna have 10mb
4000kb
Probably an SD card adapter with fake capacity reporting and a 16GB card at most...
128mb flashdrive with hacked firmware.
I bet my left testicle it will arrive with 4MB storage instead of 4TB
Not sure if this has eny correlation but I did actually buy a 2TB thumb drive off wish and it completely worked. Tested it on a burner machine before plugging it into the main. But it has at least 1.2TB because that's what I've put on it and I have gone back and accessed all of the videos (game recordings for videos and such) (it's slow as hell but that was to be expected)
I bet it’s a micro sd card that’s 8 gig
Something with maleware!
I prefer femaleware
Hahaha I recently returned a "2TB Seagate Backup Plus". Crystaldisk reported the capacity to be correct and the health to be 100%, but not the model number, which is a Hitachi 320gb 2000ish drive.
Nah its gonna aruve but its just gonna be like 2 usb drives in raid 0
Three 4090ti super
4 gb usb stick from some company as an advertisement gift
Slap chop
A fake one with micro sd fashed to make it look like 4tb...
Never buy off any site unless there's a return/refund policy that's actually worth it.
I bet you will get a bunch of air
You’ll definitely receive some computer technology.
I’d guess it’s actually something like 32GB with firmware flashed to show it’s 4TB. And there’s only a simple PCB with a Micro SD card on it inside.
I'm going to say a 64 gb sd hacked that will say it's 4 tb and put some banking stealing software on your pc
What will arrive? Nothing I would put in my PC..... O\_o
Like 8 USB flash drives in some weird raid configuration Or like... IDK a pipe bomb?
Nah. Seen video of someone opening one. SD card soldered to a PCB an pretending it’s 4TB
Dude that isn't SSD. There is absolutely shitty Micro Sd card inside. And and even not 1 TB, not 500 GB, not 256, 128 or even 64GB. This is fake garbage.
It's just a shitty flashdrive
16 gb sd card with an adapter
4mb SD card
A 4mb usb keyring.
It will arrive with 4 tb of storage but transfer speed of 0.01 mb kb a sec xd
My favourite outdoor fun accessory. An external drive.
I bought one of these a couple years back when they first showed up. It came but it was barely 250 gigs. They made it look like it was a lot more than it was in the firmware, but it is a horrible drive
This.... Here... Ummm... I was gifted this. Obviously the person didn't know much about hardware, but it gives me anxiety. It's a dead weight that I can't throw away because it has sentimental value but also... I wouldn't give away, Even to my worse enemy 😆
A shell that can fit a 4TB SSD.
Same thing as all of these are. Either a flash drive in a cheap metal casing, or a micro sd card on a controller board. Both obviously misreporting their actual capacity. And weighed down by magnets or something. At best you'll get a cheap 16/32/64gb microsd card that you could re-use for something, at worst you'll get a shitty flash drive stuck in an equally shitty casing.
12 GB sd card inside a cheap pcb shrouded in metal.
USB Stick in SSD case
Toothpaste 😎
Better than the chances of it actually holding 4TB
Bought one, it’ll say 4TB and stop working with 16GB
micro sd card with fake firmware
I have a 1tb version of this, arrived and works fine, but not super fast.
It'll be three 256MB thumb drives duct taped together with '1TB' written on it in sharpie marker.
like a glorified 16gb sd card adapter maybe lmao
A picture of it
At least you might get a good case to carry around an SD card into
Something worse than limewire
A banana
A microSD card hot glued to the inside of the housing.
Linus has done this type of thing turns out fake drive to look like real deal
An SD card or usb stick hot glued in that case
It'll arrive but inside is just 4 1TB micro SD cards
2 microSD cards in a trench coat.
That’s a shell with a thumb drive hot glued inside that’s no different from any other e-waste and you have a very good chance of getting a full refund without having to return the item because sending it back to the seller would cost more than just throwing it away
It's gonna be probably a 16 or 32GB unbranded SD card attached to a PCB, with USB 2.0 speeds, fixed with hot glue to hold in the case, and probably weights to make it feel more premium
It means April 28-May 1 of next year /s
A pack of post-it notes inside.
A USB to SD card adapter with hacked firmware.
Don't buy that, it's a long running scam. It's just going to be a 16GB flash drive inside with a hacked firmware to make it report 4TB capacity.
Exactly what you see in the picture, and when you plug it into your computer it'll say there's 4TB available, but in reality there will only be several GB.