Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs on the Rise: Beware of Counterfeit Drives
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Kaarme
It's pretty peculiar it even fooled Magician. The software must not have very robust algorithms for recognising genuine drives, then. I wonder what happens when you update the firmware through Magician, haha. Best case scenario would be an immediate error message with nothing else happening, the worst case would be bricking the drive permanently.
Stairmand
In the UK I REGULARLY see fake SSD's on Amazon. Someone bought one into the shop the other week, sold as a 5TB external SSD but when I opened it I found effectively 64GB SD card and adaptor.
What's worse is that it was a sponsored item, and was still available a week after I reported it to them.
Picolete
The company i work at buy things from China in bulk, once we got hundreds of fake "Kingston" SSDs
Stairmand
In fact, I just checked and it's still on there, (or back on there) for £55.99 as a sponsored item.
Brasky
Kaarme
schmidtbag
I don't get it... why would you buy such a drive used in the first place? If I'm buying a used drive, it's either from someone I personally know/trust or because I'm on a very tight budget, in which case, I'd get a lower-tier model.
Buying a used SSD is like buying used underwear - with good hygiene and a good washer, maybe it's fine, but you're taking a lot of unnecessary risks for something that is kinda designed to be used by a single person/PC for its usable life.
Prince Valiant
k37chup
alanm
I never buy anything used. Just hope counterfeit items dont end up being sold as new by Amazon one day.
Venix
Funny thing is this is not a hackjob SD ...the drive seem like an ok performers midrangers , at least usable!
Martin5000
avoid Amazon
alanm
DirtyDee
LimitbreakOr
Glottiz
https://i.imgur.com/6B5ZEGZ.png
Never ever had a problem with Amazon. People are just stupid and don't know how to shop. When buying anything that costs more than 50€ I make sure it's sold and shipped by Amazon directly. Never got scammed, never got bad product, never got delayed shipment.
LimitbreakOr
pegasus1
Ive been buying from Amazon since 2008, and ive spent an absolute ton of money on PC equipment and never had an issue. I recently hjad to return a 32" monitor that died a couple of weeks after i bought it, the process was so simple and i had my money back within 10 working days. Mobo's GPUs, CPUs, RAM and SSDs/NVMes the lot, never an issue but i wouldnt buy 2nd hand ever.
LimitbreakOr
Airbud