I am having the same “issue” with RUclips; The amount of fake health and medical information (info-mercials) has reached the obscene level. What’s sad is that these advertisers are apparently doing well enough to be able to saturated the platform with ads running from 3 to 20 minutes in length. It’s sad, really.
I've been seeing/reporting fake flash drives and fake sd cards on Amazon and eBay since highschool (13 years ago). I remember arguing with my friend's dad because he bought a "1TB" SD card for $30 on Amazon. He refused to return it because it "works fine" in his Kindle Fire and he didn't understand what I was telling him about it actually being a much smaller card.
I had not heard of this scam, but I nearly spit out my iced coffee seeing a 64TB thumbdrive! Surely that must be a typo, it should be GB. A quick search right now on the google brought up.......get ready......a 64TB "Lenovo" thumbdrive for $30 on ebay! It's also available in numerous colors. I can see how those who are not IT savvy can be tricked. It's a disgusting scam.
As much as I agree with checking the serial number to validate the product. Simply checking the serial number may not always yield a success; I’ve seen scammers apply a valid serial number to a knock off.
As annoying as this is what annoys me of late is usb drives reporting a speed that only applies to some buffer and when that’s full you drop to to 2-3MB/s. sandisk etc…
The people who created the removable disk standard gave for granted that manufacturers would all be honest people. The USB drive shows the capacity reported by the controller, which can be any number, but it is supposed to be the real capacity of the drive. This aspect of removable flash storage is being abused by people with moral compass, with no solution in sight...
I bought the same thing you did but considerably more money... so I did not think it was a scam. But I did get scammed once on a Samsung SDRam chip a few years ago so now I test each and every memory chip I buy immediately. and yup that 64 gig chip only had 8 on it and I returned it the very next day as fraud
As a non businessman with moderate Linux CLI ability, I found this video to be very useful. I would not have fallen for this particular type of scam but your video is a timely reminder for all of us. What other scams are in the pipeline? Thanks.
The best pricing I've ever seen for a genuine 2TB device is £80,- (Secondhand, via a reputable UK resale business) and that was a 2,5" SATA SSD. On that token a 64TB device would have to be at least the physical size of a floppy drive and have a price tag around the £2.500,- to even be _close_ to legitimate. Single 64TB flash chips _will_ come along eventually...But they are at least 30 years away from now. I _think_ the biggest chip available at present is about 2TB or so.
Never happened to me ( IT technician and network manager in a hospital) but that happened to my mother. Bought a 2Tb noname pen drive for, if I could remember correctly, 35 euros, because on Amazon they were at most 256 gb for that price so she jumped on eBay and found that. It was a 16gb USB drive with horrible speeds. Got the money back luckily, and she was intending to use that only for copy of documents (not really important) and recipes, but that's not the point. She was sure to have secured a deal, and instead I've had to do the speech, about security, shopping from unreliable stores and so on another time. Now I've provided her my old nas, a old raspberry with two one tb drives and its solved. Well, not really, that's another piece of "well, since you're here, before dinner I've had to ask something" situations, but that's another story. 😂
But as you say, when the price is good but close enough to be reasonable, we can all be caught out. Yes when it arrives and the packing is wrong, we know, but the scammer at that point already has our money. It is the sites, Ali Express and Amazon and others who should be dealing with this.
All they need is one drive of each type they're creating a 'knock off' of. Then just print that on all of them. In that case the warrenty search will show way to little time on it after a while because someone will register that number. That said they're not targetting people who know enough to know to check serial numbers.
@@kaseyboles30 while I am sure that the counterfeiters would not actually register the serial number of the device they purchased, I would hope that the manufacturer would log lookups and quickly spot multiple requests for one particular serial number and then flag that as an issue.
@@Steve264511 One of the knockoff recievers likely would register it. I think some else who tried to register it after and then try a warrenty claim when it 'failed' might raise some flags.
The fake Xiaomi and lenovo drives with a traditional design (single usb connector and cap) are excellent as FREE metal USB enclosures, as they are easy to take apart and Ali won't flinch when you'll ask for a refund.
Hi NasComparies - I almost just bought a Synology DS923+ when I saw a RUclips thumbnail about it being the worst time to buy a Synology NAS (7mo ago) since new ones are on the horizon. Do you think we'll see a newer model to the DS923+ soon and if so will it be around the same price? $600 USD If so, I think it's probably best for me to wait.
This is content that I take a strong degree of interest in. Unfortunately I had to stop and close my browser within two minutes of starting because carrying on watching was too damned painful. 😢 Being stuck with a GP who'll _happily_ provide metabolism and testosterone upkeep (And reinforce a tremendous amount of benefit income) for one of my straight neighbours so *he* can be skinny, athletic and stunningly attractive - But will deny me the same things just for her „christian“ prejudice against my non-chosen sexual orientation 🏳🌈 - Probably has a lot to do with this. 🥺
Generally good video, but FAT is still widely used. It's required for modern UEFI so I often need FAT32 USB drives for USB booting. And often limitations are imposed by Windows for number and sizes of partitions on them, but 3rd party (ie Minitool) or Linux partition managers have no such artificial limitations.
FAT32 only supports 32 gigabyte or, with recent Windows 11 systems, 2 terabyte when formatted through the commandline. Why doesn't Windows complain when seeing a 64 terabyte FAT32 drive while FAT32 cannot support that partition size? NTFS can go up to 8 petabyte and exFAT can go up to 128 petabyte, so that would at the very least be possible software-wise.
The sad thing is, many people are. And because most OSs blindly trust and display the info given to them by the controller on the drive, confirmation bias is but one click away...
I am having the same “issue” with RUclips; The amount of fake health and medical information (info-mercials) has reached the obscene level. What’s sad is that these advertisers are apparently doing well enough to be able to saturated the platform with ads running from 3 to 20 minutes in length. It’s sad, really.
I've been seeing/reporting fake flash drives and fake sd cards on Amazon and eBay since highschool (13 years ago). I remember arguing with my friend's dad because he bought a "1TB" SD card for $30 on Amazon. He refused to return it because it "works fine" in his Kindle Fire and he didn't understand what I was telling him about it actually being a much smaller card.
I had not heard of this scam, but I nearly spit out my iced coffee seeing a 64TB thumbdrive! Surely that must be a typo, it should be GB. A quick search right now on the google brought up.......get ready......a 64TB "Lenovo" thumbdrive for $30 on ebay! It's also available in numerous colors. I can see how those who are not IT savvy can be tricked. It's a disgusting scam.
As much as I agree with checking the serial number to validate the product. Simply checking the serial number may not always yield a success; I’ve seen scammers apply a valid serial number to a knock off.
And what happens when you plug these drives into a Mac?
As annoying as this is what annoys me of late is usb drives reporting a speed that only applies to some buffer and when that’s full you drop to to 2-3MB/s. sandisk etc…
Forget the usb storage scam. If you pay £3.20 for a coffee then you are the mug.
At that price, I hope you'd _get_ a mug with it! ☕💸😳
The people who created the removable disk standard gave for granted that manufacturers would all be honest people. The USB drive shows the capacity reported by the controller, which can be any number, but it is supposed to be the real capacity of the drive.
This aspect of removable flash storage is being abused by people with moral compass, with no solution in sight...
You got scammed, its now $5 USD for 8PB usb memory keys.
I bought the same thing you did but considerably more money... so I did not think it was a scam.
But I did get scammed once on a Samsung SDRam chip a few years ago so now I test each and every memory chip I buy immediately.
and yup that 64 gig chip only had 8 on it and I returned it the very next day as fraud
As a non businessman with moderate Linux CLI ability, I found this video to be very useful. I would not have fallen for this particular type of scam but your video is a timely reminder for all of us. What other scams are in the pipeline? Thanks.
Xiaomi is pronounced Show' (rhymes with cow) mee
64 tuberculosis
I have a drive here which I bought back from Brussels on the day the UK left the EU. It can apparently hold:... 😳
...1 G.B. 🇬🇧😋
With this capacity density, it might value at millions if real.
a friend of my got scammed like this a decade ago, apparently this is still relevant.
The best pricing I've ever seen for a genuine 2TB device is £80,- (Secondhand, via a reputable UK resale business) and that was a 2,5" SATA SSD. On that token a 64TB device would have to be at least the physical size of a floppy drive and have a price tag around the £2.500,- to even be _close_ to legitimate.
Single 64TB flash chips _will_ come along eventually...But they are at least 30 years away from now. I _think_ the biggest chip available at present is about 2TB or so.
Never happened to me ( IT technician and network manager in a hospital) but that happened to my mother. Bought a 2Tb noname pen drive for, if I could remember correctly, 35 euros, because on Amazon they were at most 256 gb for that price so she jumped on eBay and found that. It was a 16gb USB drive with horrible speeds. Got the money back luckily, and she was intending to use that only for copy of documents (not really important) and recipes, but that's not the point. She was sure to have secured a deal, and instead I've had to do the speech, about security, shopping from unreliable stores and so on another time.
Now I've provided her my old nas, a old raspberry with two one tb drives and its solved.
Well, not really, that's another piece of "well, since you're here, before dinner I've had to ask something" situations, but that's another story. 😂
But as you say, when the price is good but close enough to be reasonable, we can all be caught out. Yes when it arrives and the packing is wrong, we know, but the scammer at that point already has our money. It is the sites, Ali Express and Amazon and others who should be dealing with this.
But the price is nowhere near reasonable.
Surely the makers of fake SanDisk Portable SSDs can print a legitimate Serial Number on the casing
All they need is one drive of each type they're creating a 'knock off' of. Then just print that on all of them. In that case the warrenty search will show way to little time on it after a while because someone will register that number. That said they're not targetting people who know enough to know to check serial numbers.
@@kaseyboles30 while I am sure that the counterfeiters would not actually register the serial number of the device they purchased, I would hope that the manufacturer would log lookups and quickly spot multiple requests for one particular serial number and then flag that as an issue.
@@Steve264511 One of the knockoff recievers likely would register it. I think some else who tried to register it after and then try a warrenty claim when it 'failed' might raise some flags.
The fake Xiaomi and lenovo drives with a traditional design (single usb connector and cap) are excellent as FREE metal USB enclosures, as they are easy to take apart and Ali won't flinch when you'll ask for a refund.
Hi NasComparies - I almost just bought a Synology DS923+ when I saw a RUclips thumbnail about it being the worst time to buy a Synology NAS (7mo ago) since new ones are on the horizon. Do you think we'll see a newer model to the DS923+ soon and if so will it be around the same price? $600 USD
If so, I think it's probably best for me to wait.
You may want to (if you haven't already) do a video on disabling auto run and using disposable VMs to protect oneself.
I’m a simple man. I see a new Nas Compares video, I neglect my responsibilities
People who buy should put in a claim as not described then the seller will get fed up advertising them
I’ve just paid £7 for a 64Gb usb drive in Home Bargains.
Who in their right mind would think that you could get a 64Tb drive for £5?
64TB USB 3.0 (5 Gbit/s) drives for less than 10€? If they were real, I'd take at least 25 and would need some more USB slots on my computer! ;)
OS should include a drive scam check that is easy to do. Also need to check firmwares for viruses!
That is not a scam! It is the new write once, read never drive type a.k.a. WORN-drive.
Those are nothing new. I've got some 90s computer media that's been through drives a few times too many to ever be usable again... 😉
thank you for your service.
Actually gets to the point at 5:36
It's pronounced shau mee
Every day's a school day! Thanks
Ehksomee😂
This is content that I take a strong degree of interest in. Unfortunately I had to stop and close my browser within two minutes of starting because carrying on watching was too damned painful. 😢
Being stuck with a GP who'll _happily_ provide metabolism and testosterone upkeep (And reinforce a tremendous amount of benefit income) for one of my straight neighbours so *he* can be skinny, athletic and stunningly attractive - But will deny me the same things just for her „christian“ prejudice against my non-chosen sexual orientation 🏳🌈 - Probably has a lot to do with this. 🥺
Thanks.
That brand also sells EV cars, you want to buy a car from that brand after this YT ?
Generally good video, but FAT is still widely used. It's required for modern UEFI so I often need FAT32 USB drives for USB booting. And often limitations are imposed by Windows for number and sizes of partitions on them, but 3rd party (ie Minitool) or Linux partition managers have no such artificial limitations.
How are you pronouncing that name? 🤣
FAT32 only supports 32 gigabyte or, with recent Windows 11 systems, 2 terabyte when formatted through the commandline. Why doesn't Windows complain when seeing a 64 terabyte FAT32 drive while FAT32 cannot support that partition size?
NTFS can go up to 8 petabyte and exFAT can go up to 128 petabyte, so that would at the very least be possible software-wise.
ruclips.net/video/TqLfGQt2Zw8/видео.html video from 2018. Next year: ""Hé!! Bye this 128 TB USB stick for $ 10,-- ""
It’s not xiaomi, it’s just a fake.
You have to be pretty much computer illiterate to believe you can put 64 TB on a usb key.
The sad thing is, many people are. And because most OSs blindly trust and display the info given to them by the controller on the drive, confirmation bias is but one click away...