Another Scam Fake 16TB HD Vendor - Avoid!
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.