Fake - Counterfeit - Kingston A400 480GB SSD - bought from ebay - Teardown and what to look for...

Here is a Fake - Counterfeit - Kingston A400 480GB SSD which was purchased from ebay - It lasted a week before it was no longer detected by the computers bios - lets see how to identify it as a fake and exactly what is inside this dodgy knockoff...

[@evilZardoz]

Purchased a 960GB Kingston A400 from an eBay seller for just over AU$33 which turned out to be fake. Fortunately, I ran some tests to see if I could fill the drive first before trusting it with any sort of data as mine, too, had the 6V sticker on it.

[@GTI8855]

Never trust your data to a single drive no matter how reliable it is.

[@SmarkDepper]

A customer brought a SSD powered laptop that according to him was slower than when it used to have HDD. Plus corrupted SO. I removed the disk because I was losing my shit, it was slow as an U2 SD card and unstable.
Thanks to this video I can confirm the red LED and the warranty sticker are the most notable signs of a counterfeit A400.

[@xmarkggwp]

i opened mine too it also look like this but the chip has the kingston label on it, is it fake too? btw its 240GB version.

[@K0N1G-]

If the pcb is blue than its real if its green or black its fake this is how you know because mine came today and i opened it straight away and the pcb was blue it had kingston text labeled on the chip the sticker was way better and i order it on gjirafa50 wich gives tou 1 year warranty and they bring their products straight from the original fabric

[@guerraldo]

For more it is useless to buy original, I ordered a lot from Kingston precisely the original DELTRON A400 960g and these are very bad, I would say as bad as a Chinese, what do I mean in the writing speed that did not exceed 50 mb /s in many of the tests and the read one like 350 mb/s tested on several computers, these get slow after 25% fill, I thought they were pirated or failed (check with the Kingston APP and serial), but No, so a client brought a laptop with this same model and it behaved the same, at the beginning it marked a good speed and then it fell noisily when you filled it up. I realized why I copied information immediately, I also had to finish them off and even give them away, because They behaved like this, the A400 480g does not behave like this, for me the last Kingston that I buy,

[@Sneznhaya]

I got scammed too. Look exactly the same as yours.. Same chip, No kingston logo, black pcb. Not detected eversince i purchased it. Piece of trash whoever invented that

[@masttt8480]

I bought a KC600 1tb from china from a reputable seller on ebay and it is also fake.
The pcb is slightly different tough. same crap anyway.

[@nekodelightma2752]

I got 480gb fake kingston mine too and its completety already dead waste of money and my data is all lost 😢😢😢😢

[@DarkAngelBright]

Better buy in legit store