64TB USB Drives - How Does This SCAM Work?
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00:01 - Introduction: The USB Storage Scam Explosion
00:45 - Fake USB Drives Proliferating on Major Platforms
01:23 - Understanding Why People Fall for the Scam
03:09 - How Fake Drives Fool Operating Systems
05:03 - Performance Issues with Fake USB Drives
05:46 - The Technical Tricks: File Allocation Table, Logical Volume Descriptor, and Partition Tables
07:11 - Legacy Formats: FAT32 and Fake Capacity Reporting
08:26 - Formatting Fake Drives: The Real Capacity Revealed
09:03 - Malware Risks from Fake USB Drives
09:39 - Why Fake USB Listings Persist Online
10:16 - How to Spot Fake Drives: Serial Numbers and Branding
11:28 - Fake Branding Tactics: Examples from SanDisk and WD
12:07 - Missing Logos and Physical Evidence of Fraud
12:44 - Why Most Tech-Savvy Users Won’t Be Scammed
13:22 - Criticizing Platforms for Allowing Fake Drive Listings
13:51 - Conclusion: Share Your Fake Drive Stories
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Agreed. RUclips ads are a cesspit. And I'm not buying it that RUclips can't clean up many of those ads. More like they don't want to lose all that lovely ad revenue.
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Well, maybe they just mean TemuBytes and not Terrabytes. 😂
More like Temu bites - once bitten, twice shy!
LOL!
Tinybytes
Excellent comment 😅
I got banned from doing reviews on Amazon FOR LIFE because I pointed out these fake flash drives. I bought a REAL 2TB drive for $148 a few months agol
That's incredible - Amazon actually blocking people who try to warn of fake goods! Despicable - and should be illegal :-(
Met many of the media companies are taking away the the fact checkers Facebook is and all the rest. They’re gonna allow lying and everything else you can think so do your own fact checking and anything you find that you think is for real make sure you check it. It is probably not..
Amazon is terrible for selling fake products, i pointed out something to them a few months ago and never heard from them again.
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.
When I saw this video pop up in my video suggestions on You Tube, this reminded me of an incident I had back in 2015. I will make this very brief, at the time I was gifted a 128GB MicroSD card for Christmas by someone in my family because I had bought a new digital camera to take on a cruise in January 2016. Needless to say, I placed the SD card into my digital camera on the cruise and began snapping photos. Then suddenly, I had taken so many pictures that the SD card malfunctioned and I literally LOST hundreds of cruise photos due to this so-called "128GB" card. I later found out that the family member who purchased the memory card, purchased it on Ebay for around $10. That should've been a red flag right there because 128GB MicroSD cards back in 2015/2016 were priced around $300 UD Dollars. Obviously, after having lost hundreds of photos on a cruise, I was livid! But, my point is that I had no idea that SD card was a scam because the family member wanted it to be a surprise because it was a Christmas gift. I am considering this incident a lesson learned.
When you're shopping for a product, even if it's something you don't know a lot about like a gift for a relative, you pretty quickly figure out what the "going price" is for that kinda of product...... So if the 28 gig SD cards I'm seeing are all going for $300, and suddenly I see one claiming the same capacity for $10, I'm thinking, "I smell a rat!"
I hate to say it, but your relative wanted to _look_ generous to you while actually going ridiculously, impossibly cheap. Did you gift the SD card back to them the following Christmas?😉
I solved the problem of good-intentioned friends and family buying me tech. I tell them, "What I need you can't afford, and what you can afford I don't need."
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! ☕💸😳
If you just want a cup of coffee right now, £3.20 probably isn't the worst possible value for money.
If you already have everything you need to brew your own coffee, that is obviously the cheapest option per cup. You can buy 250g. of ground coffee (which will be enough for at least 25 mugs) for £3.50, hardly any more than one ready-made coffee. (You can get coffee for even less, but it's unlikely to be any good). If you like milk or sugar with your coffee (and you probably will need them, if you bought that cheap coffee), then that adds to the cost -- and while a kilo of sugar is 250 spoonfuls and will keep more or less forever if stored in an air-tight container, the milk is only going to keep for three days, whether or not you drink it all within that time. And of course, you need to heat the water. If the physics I learned in school serves me well (1 kWh = 3 600 000 J; 4200 J makes 1 kg. of water 1 degree hotter; 3600000 / (4200 * 90) = 9.523809 kg. of water; 1 litre of water weighs 1kg. and will fill 4 250ml. mugs.), then 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity is enough to make 9.5 litres of water 90 degrees C hotter than it already is, which is enough for 38 mugs. And that costs 23p, according to my key meter, so it comes in under a penny a mug. So for the price of 2 cuppas, you can purchase the ingredients to make ..... somewhere between 15 and 25 cups of your own coffee, depending on taste and fuel prices.
But what if you have not got the wherewithal to brew your own coffee? Well, there is really no upper bound to what you can spend on a fancy coffee maker, but let's traipse around town looking for the lower bound. You can buy a cafetière for £5.99. An electric kettle will set you back another tenner. So that requires a further 5 cuppas of up-front investment.
Still, having gone shopping with £22.40 -- or 7 cuppas -- in your pocket, you now have the ability to prepare three times that amount or more; and the lion's share of that outlay was capital expenditure -- stuff you only need to buy once, and can keep reusing over and over again until it gets broken. Everything after that is operational expenditure -- stuff that gets used up and you have to keep buying more of.
(If you don't have access to mains electricity, then you can expect to pay 10 cuppas for a camping stove, gas canister and set of pans instead of the kettle. Depending on the time of year, you might find bargains as stores start marking down "Summer" goods to clear stock ready for Back to School, Hallowe'en and then Christmas; but call it ten if you need the kit _now_. You can still just about break even from this extravagance, and of course you will get savings all the way going forwards.)
But all that depends on having the initial outlay. If £3.20 is all the money in your pocket, and you're thirsty right now, then becoming self-sufficienct in coffee has to remain an impossible dream.
TL;DR -- just use some of what you have already saved to buy a homeless person a coffee.
That is around the going rate in a restaurant or cafe nowadays.
Coffee is expensive everywhere now. Sizes have reduced too. Your money buys less. It's our keenness to economise and get a bargain that drives the success of these USB scams. But people will still pay more for a coffee, and a cheap cuppa isn't so much a bargain. More likely to be instant coffee.
Are you the mug or were you mugged?
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.
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If I was a scammer, I'd buy a legit product or view a legit product box to get a legit Serial#, then print that on my scam products.
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@CarneSagrado I wonder if *registering* the product on the (apparent) manufacturer's site would reveal that it is fraudulent by using the serial number? I would doubt more than a single-to-small-handfull of serial numbers would have been co-opted.
@@CarneSagrado Mfgs will sometimes flag that serial number if there are too many inquiries.
A buddy loaned me a OBD II scan tool because mine was not working on an older hybrid. His was doing some crazy stuff, I sort of thought I caused the problem with it, went online and found that serial number was a known fake. But all was not lost. Whatever it did when plugged in to that hybrid, it sort of woke something up and my own OBD II scan tool was then able to fetch and read the data.
If you look at a YT video about scam drives and they tell you it's OK if it has a serial number that you can check, it is good to go 🤔 so the very same analagy he uses for inexperienced buyers, he gives out to us! Bit of a boo boo... even the Chinese can copy a number (can't translate for 💩 tho... proofing apparently has not reached the far east yet).
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…
Unfortunately, it's the nature of flash memory - it just doesn't write very fast. You can stick a DRAM buffer on the front (which is what most SSDs do) to mitigate it on small writes, but as soon as that runs out, you get the real speed of the flash - which is often less than 1GB/sec, even for "performance" NVMe SSDs.
You got scammed, its now $5 USD for 8PB usb memory keys.
They use quantum computing as well.
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.
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. 😂
You may want to (if you haven't already) do a video on disabling auto run and using disposable VMs to protect oneself.
Windows hasn't autorun anything since Vista. There have been some autorun-based attacks in the last 15 years, but their payload exploited bugs in the AUTORUN.INF or icon parser, because they can't actually run anything. It's why people who want to create mayhem have moved onto USBKills and the like.
I did buy one out of curiosity - it came in a nice metal case, but was just a 16GB USB drive with a soldered on adaptor (USB to USB C socket). I have only been scammed once in regards to RAM. I bought a Crucial RAM stick from an ebay seller and recieved a generic RAM stick. When I complained the seller asked does it work and left it at that. The cost (in time & money) getting it resolved just wasn't worth the effort for me.
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.
Come on, nobody can really believe theyre getting a gold bar for $20.
Hey, don't forget the TV antennas being advertised with 250, 500, and 1,000-mile ranges! 🤣
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...
Not only that, but it would be impractical to do otherwise.
When plugging a disk of multi-TB capacity would first "check the blocks to see if they are really readable", it would take a day to do that.
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.
At least in Australia, if you buy from a reputable (i.e. not a fly-by-night) Australian retailer, Australian Consumer Protection Law can be used to force a refund out of the retailer. They can also be made legally responsible for any consequent damage caused by the device, despite some "warranty" claims that try to say that you can't sue for consequential damages. In fact, even trying to tell you that you can't sue is a crime, in and of itself. (And you might even be able to get a fly-by-night in trouble, depending upon how quickly they fly into the night)
Because the retailers know that they're the ones who will ultimately bear the cost, they're very careful about the sources for their storage devices.
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.
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul Agree.
Simple remedy to that: buy directly from the brand website. Avoid market places like a plague.
RUclips has been showing me those SanDisk 4TB SSDs for £35. Too cheap to be real, but RUclips doesn’t care and the ads still show up.
Thanks for sharing this! We really appreciate it!
I see a lot of those advertised on RUclips. I reported a few where the data in the image already shows the product is almost certainly fake (16TB in NVME enclosure form factor, 2x for 42€ total), but RUclips found no issues with this paying customer.
The shop website itself was combining bad photoshop of multiple brand products, editing out the brand name (and completely ignoring they don't look like the same product). Also the shops seem to always offer an odd combination of fake tech and questionable outdoor equipment (like flashlights that if you do the maths would suck the battery dry within a minute).
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I was curious and bought one of these tiny thumb drives, purportedly 2TB, for AUD5. However when I tested it (on a VM so its safer), it can't read nor write properly, no matter how I low-level format it.
And you are right: Windows system reports it as LEGIT 2TB. Needed to use other file system like NTFS to break down the wall.
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So BEWARE! Be guided by his 1 TB ~ $30 measurement!
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My rule is that every number uttered by every entity, is a lie. As a consumer I must determine whether this lie is egregious and malicious, or simply the way business is done nowadays. Every specification, product rating, implied grocery product volume or weight, government economic measure, commodity spot price, health product claim, insurance savings claim, warranty savings claim - every number - is a fiction. Now that there are no longer any consumer protections, the business/consumer relationship is purely adversarial.
Yeah in oz we have departments that flush out these scammers.Only theyve got bugger all powers after that.
What’s oz…? The land of?
I totally agree. Advertising itself is effectively a scam endeavor now - and there seem to be no more checks and balances in our governments and society anymore. We even have people like Dyson, who are awarded knighthoods for scamming everyone non-technical for decades - and is now even dictating our own UK government's corporation tax policy :-(
@@jimalcott760 Australia, mate
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.
this scam has been going on for years but the size of the drive keeps going up. you can get a real 1TB nvme drive or micro sd for 60 bucks. there's no such things as a reasonably priced 64TB device. imagine using that and finding it was unreadable. I couldn't handle losing 64tb I'd need another 128tb to make two backups, just in case
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.
This for me is very informative as it explains what happened to a flash drive I had back around 2015 it was only 64gig first thing I did was reformat to ntfs and when I rechecked its capacity it had dropped to 16gb
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
I would never, ever buy either a usb drive or a memory card from Amazon, unless it was sold by and shipped by Amazon. Same goes for Bestbuy and their marketplace sellers. Both these companies regularly allow counterfeit and phony equipment on their sites. Same goes for laptop batteries, another often counterfeited product. I bought a lenovo battery once where the lenovo trademark was covered by a piece of black tape, which I assume was a crude attempt to avoid being caught if it were inspected at customs. The label was a photocopy of a legitimate lenovo label. I had purchased this thing from what appeared to be a Canadian company on a Canadian website, but when I later investigated, their address turned out to be a shipping service in a strip mall in Toronto, and the package I received was clearly shipped from China originally. (I'm glad I didn't install it. It might have caught on fire.) There are more scams out there! Bottom line, if it looks like too good a deal, stay away from it.
I love your gold watch.
Looks exactly like my Silver Casio Databank that I've owned since 1981!
Well, long ago when this scam was still being done at GB capacities, I bought some 32GB USB sticks and SD cards, and received 8GB ones.
Complained to the store, "he did not know that" etc. But I got my money back and got to keep them.
They work OK in Linux when carefully fdisked and formatted to the right capacity.
I bought a 1Tb external HDD for about £65 about 5 years ago, and it is good and real. Whenever I see these advertised I know it's fake, but thanks for explaining why.
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... 😉
There was an item on this on the Fake Briton programme on BBC 1 some years ago. What they do is have a circular buffer in the drive so it might say it has 64Gb but it will only have 1Gb. The computer formats the drive but keeps writing data to the 1Gb drive and goes back to the beginning when writing the net Gb. So you have a drive with the last Gb stored on it, so it is useless.
There are programs like H2testw that will check the full capacity of a memory card/stick/drive and confirm it's real capacity, read write speed and errors.
I first saw this scam probably 20 years ago, when the capacity of sd card was somewhere 128MB.
Years ago, when real gigabyte flash drives were just coming out, I bought a 2GB flash drive for what I thought was a really great price; when I tried to copy a 500 MB file to it, though, things got really interesting...Explorer crashed, then Windows crashed. When I recovered from that, I tried to reformat the drive, only to have Windows tell me it couldn't format it. Needless to say, that flash drive went right into the circular file (trash can) and I avoided buying large flash drives for a couple more years.
This kind of scam has actually been on Amazon for several years now, along with external SSDs that also claim to have.amazingly unrealistic capacities.
The Chinese government recently passed a whole load of laws to protect the consumer against scams online. If you are shopping in China your transactions are under Chinese law, so you could make a complaint to the Chinese authorities. However you would normally not need to because the same laws put responsibility on the platform to deal with it. I had a 300 pound computer go missing in the Chinese post, but the platform refunded in full.
This is not about goods not delivered, this is about specification scams.
They are so abundant on Chinese platforms that I first want to see that they go away before I believe it....
(storage with wrong capacity, batteries with wrong capacity, lights with wrong lumens value, etc etc)
that's a really heavy computer!
@@fogcat5I assume they are speaking of GBP (£). But I agree, it sounds heavy 😅
I had a similar thing with a GBP60.00 light fitting, of which I ordered two, fully understanding the delivery timescale from China of 1 month. I got a tracking number and everything. I gave a further 2 weeks' grace, then noticed my item seemed just to be stuck somewhere in the Chinese postal system and asked for a refund. Refund duly appeared. Then I realised they had £120.00 of my money for six weeks! Pretty sure this was a scam.
@@kristofburek264 No they do not do things like that but the odd item does go missing in their system. I had i t a couple of months ago, but the refund process was pretty fast. More items get lost our end in my experience.
Yeah, I'm a dummy. I bought a 16 TB. In fact, this may explain the problems I'm having with my IP camera with a cheap TF or SD. Thanks for the info. This is why I have cut way back from buying on AliExpress. Batteries are also a big scam. Wish I would have discovered your channel earlier.
I got scammed on ebay several years ago but it was something like 64 or 128GB USB that was actually 8GB. Properties showed the 64 or 128GB. Used one for back up, and then one day when needing the backup, the data was not there.
There was a Google ad for one of these right next to this video on my RUclips homepage. Worrying.
I mean, *lifts irony hammer*...that's bad
OS should include a drive scam check that is easy to do. Also need to check firmwares for viruses!
As he said, a check on a drive this "size" would take 80-100 days for the write, then (assuming it reads at the same speed it writes) another 80-100 days to read back and check for any funny business. I personally wouldn't like to have wait 7 months before I can use my new USB stick. 🤣
The scam USB drives on Amazon have been running for years. I bought one to test so I could leave a negative review (it was nowhere near the advertised capacity and was extremely slow). Amazon removed my review and claimed it was not a scam.
I got banned from doing reviews on Amazon FOR LIFE because I pointed out these fake flash drives. I bought a REAL 2TB drive for $148 a few months agol
Says something about Amazon….similar at eBay, I bought a coin and got an empty box, from Liberty coin, even with their guarantee I lost….
Imo this is the most shocking part of the story! How can they actively support these scams without repercussions?!?
That's why I never buy from Amascam. I pay more and wait longer to get the actual product I need from a reputable company.
@@longtom IMO, the short answer is that Bezos wants to keep the shareholders happy. With any publicly traded company these days, as long as the dividends keep getting paid out, nothing else matters.
Thank you for the information
I bought a couple of those all metal slim key chain ones... $3.50 each off eBay 2 tb formated in NTFS and came out with 32gig not bad for $3.50.
I figured as much since I have a 1TB Flash drive and a 4TB M.2 External SSD that will not mount. Disk Utility does not recognize either as valid. There’s some data on the SSDs that can not be erased or reformatted. I’m afraid that while testing these drives, a virus loaded on in iOS for iPhone and macOS for my iMac. The INTEGO VirusBarrier Scanner app can not find anything on either SSD Drives.
4:28 Open-Shell menu for the win! 🤘
Is there a handheld device we can use to check these possibly dodgy memory devices without plugging in the potentially dodgy memory device into my PC??
Yep put me down in the "Mug" section. 1Tb = 8Gb = 7 quid = E-Bay = Mug.
I bought a couple of 1tb usb drives a couple years ago, out curiosity.
They seemed to be able to store a small amount of data.
But if I tried to copy a few gigabytes, it would act like it worked, but the file system would be completely corrupted.
New day, new scam.
I bought a couple (knowing it was a scam but wanting to check them out) one was a micro sd card hot glued to an enclosure, the other one was a usbc pendrive and the files that were copied to the disk appeared corrupt and could not be opened no matter how large or small they were.
I’m reminded of fake Apple products where the codes used will come back as legitimate, whereas the devices are definitely not! The same thing happens with Gibson guitars, albeit we are talking about an awful lot more money there. Basically, it is only one check and not a guarantee of legitimacy.
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I'm not sure the less technically savvy wouldn't even pay much attention to the acronyms 'GB', or 'TB', ... they'll probably focus on the '64' and '£5' which is about the going eBay price (for 64 GB).
Windows believes this corrupt rubbish but tells me my £900 computer is worthless because they do not like my processor. Windows will cease with that attitude.
If it’s too good to be true it probably is.
But you don’t know until it’s too late…..
If it is too good to be true, it is too good to be true.
I would always recommand a person that is not so deep into tech, to buy a storage device from a known seller, like micro center in the US oder Media Markt or Saturn here in Germany. Even if it is a bit more expansive like the best offer you could get, it is far better then losing the data with a scam product.
I needed new SD Cards and ordered them directly from the Samsung store, to be sure I get the originals. As a youtuber to make clips from a vacation and then see, that all the footage is written into nowhere would be a desaster. So I prefer to pay a little bit extra to be on the safe side.
I have to think that if we here in the U.S. made our own chips/drives, that this kind of scam would be all but nonexistent.
Indeed so.
what's your take on these "find photos" drives frequently advertised?
Same people buy electric vehicles and expect to get over 350-miles to a charge 🤔
I have and I do. Approaching 5 miles per kwh, easy when it is not winter, and an 80kwh battery makes it possible. EVs must be be tested according to a strict test protocol so the real world range will not be a lot different from the claimed range. Furthermore the claimed ranges make it straightforward to compare different models.Fake USB drives with ridiculous amounts of claimed storage are a totally different kettle of fish.
I have some Skillcraft pen drives I found a junk store marked 64 gb that are actually 5mb
that look the same supplied through USA (National Stock Numbers) system
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.
Xiaomi is pronounced Show' (rhymes with cow) mee
Like showmi the scammer.
Actually gets to the point at 5:36
Yes but who is going to pin this entry :)
And what happens when you plug these drives into a Mac?
Macs can handle FAT drives
Exactly the same as on windows, they read the false firmware stating that it is a 64TB drive.
@@geogeo6071
You sound like one of those "IT geniuses" that might believe that for a fiver you get 64TB, aren't you?
Macs handle perfectly well FAT, ExFAT drives since the late 80's! Try to get a grip on reality "genius"!!!
@@AxelPixel-cx4wg huh?
@@AxelPixel-cx4wg "ExFAT drives since the late 80's!"
Impossible. EXFAT was introduced in 2006: "exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards, that was introduced by Microsoft in 2006."
"Try to get a grip on reality "genius"!!!"
What you wrote 🙂
People who buy should put in a claim as not described then the seller will get fed up advertising them
Even buying direct from amazon (e.g. actually sold by amazon) has led to receiving counterfeits so if you buy from them always check, especially micro-sd & usb drives.
My guess is that they chuck stuff they fulfill from 3rd party sellers in the same bin. As I've had fake sandisk & kingston from them (all legit branding rather than the dodgy look-a-likes).
Xiaomi is pronounced as 'SHAU MEE' and Not 'X Zoni' !
I bought a hard disk with several terabytes for a laugh to see how they did it, it was micro sd card and reader hacked into an empty box. With dodgy software. It was a 32 gig card. Still got it around some where to show people. I tried the seller but got told to use the internal software. 😂
EVERYONE knows about USB drives reporting incorrect sizes. There's about a billion of these videos going around with people saying the same shit as you have.
Windows or any other operating system cannot possibly identify the actual size of a drive without scanning it, so it has no choice other than to believe what the USB drive says it is.
What I want to see is a video on rewriting the firmware of USB drives to report the correct size and make them at least usable and not just e-waste. But no-one does videos on that!
You don't need to rewrite the firmware or anything so complicated - just find out how big it is, and create a partition of that size on it.
ExFAT is not FAT32.
Right, even with native 4kB sectors you can only address 16TB with FAT32 (haven't seen any logical sectors bigger than that, and there aren't that many systems that require FAT32 and are fine with giant partitions at the same time, I remember Windows98SE and even the first version of WindowsXP having issues with partitions >128GB)
He also says that NTFS (a file system introduced in 1993) was many, many years ahead and far more new than exFAT (introduced in 2006.)
This guy is the epitome of Dunning-Kruger. He's utterly convinced he's a tech genius and tbh he's a fucking hack who has made about 20 mistakes in this video alone.
(You can always tell the hacks. They have a small amount of subs and about three pages of Amazon affiliate links.)
@@Ph34rNoB33r It wasn't that Windows had any problems with them. It was because, at the time, some IDE controllers only supported 28-bit block addressing; with 512 byte sectors, that equals 128GB. While Windows 2000 and later did have a registry switch for turning on 48-bit LBAs, if your disk controller or driver didn't support it, you got a bluescreen for your trouble. As you allude to, it became default in XP SP2, and those machines got left behind, Vista/11 style.
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?
_It would take something like 80 to 100 days to fill_
_A quick byte-by-byte, block-by-block bypass_
Pick one.
I couldn't...the speed was variable and not a fixed MB/s write
I posted an experience, but RUclips must have had some problem with it, and deleted it.
I bought a usb dongle listed as Lenovo branded if I recall correctly 1 terabyte. Ran a couple of times now is inconsistent if it will mount or not.
What would be useful us to just downgrade the information down to the true size.
Don't ever get memory from amazon or any where like that. Trust Scan now for memory.
I think scamming gets much worse in the future because of A.I.
Always buy from a reputable online memory specialist retailer.
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! ;)
I got 1 TB gen2 Kingston USB and paid some £75. No way 64TB usb could cost a fiver. Even if they had a technology that can crampp 64x more memory in half the size of the Kingston one. Even if they stole the technology and production line, it wouldn't be viable selling it for a fiver. Too cheap for even 64GB stick.
If it seems too good to be true, it is a scam.
while i appreciate the tips here, none of this really helps recognize fake drives online, especially those that look reasonably prices and sized. Opening the drive or checking the serial number, that all requires buying the fake drive in the first place, at which point it's too late. I want to be able to tell if the offer is fake BEFORE purchasing.
I got a raise once for finding a deal and swapping all the company's hard drives from 64MB to 1GB for only $280 each. That was in about 1990. In 30 years, this video will seem funny and folks will say, "Of course you can get 64T for $20."
Please use some ad-revenue to get a bridge or an implant.
It is worth noting that this "Xiaomi" USB drive is counterfeit because Xiaomi does not make USB drives.
So what you're saying is go to a brick and mortar store where you can buy this thing?Get a receipt and have a guarantee and also use a credit card.If that's what you're going to do and at least that way, you know where you bought it from and you can Sue the shit out of them for selling crap.Maybe maybe not
What do if you store important data on it? Is it lost ?
Yup, usually once the real capacity is filled the file system gets corrupted and all data is lost.
Have you seen the Huawei microsd scams? Huawei don't make microsd cards. I bought one to check it out. Turned our to be a non make 8gb card but it did have all the Huawei branding.
i buy temu usb 250gb $16 fits in mobile phone also and a usb phone charger cable $3 with led lights both work buy
ive seen these TB usb's 2tb common and said No way you can fit that on a usa :) The aliexpress sdd scam they used 4x 128mb usb flash drives inside
anyway most people buy drives & hardly fill them so they wud never know its not 2tb etc
yearts go by went into Maccas prices changed was $8 now want $18 for meal rather buy supermarket cook more better .
16TB SErver HDD from Seagate sells for 263 euro's, thats 16 euro's per TB. So in the cheapest way possible th edrive should cost 1052 euro's
Your data is important, in some cases irreplaceable. There is no scenario where you you should be taking a chance on to good to be true storage deals.
Back in the day i remember paying $100 to upgrade my Amiga by half a meg. Thats not a typo, meg not gb.
This scam started already 20 years ago.
It goes back to magnetic tape cassettes, over 50 years ago. Fake BASF 90 minute cassettes that were actually 15 minutes or less.
Sigh, so this is still going on after how many? 15 yeats? 20 years?
One of theee dribes has never crossed my way. What you described as maanipulated firmware isn't the actual firmware. The formware os qhat doesnthe SCSI-over-USB commands to identify the drive, the read and wrote commands etc. Manipulating a drive at that level is.more advanced and I havennot uet heard about that level of manipulation.
I had a number of thumb drives which were extremly unreliable. Like an old floppy after sand blasting. The drives I had were barely usable of at all. The number suggest something suspicious may be going on such as USB drives that failed manufacturing testing being sold through other channels that ... don't ask questions. But it's hard to say that with certainty.
These drives all had some kind of generic look differing onli in the etched / printed brand name od the cover.
They are not real because I had a cheap 1tb sd card once and it will work upto so much 30GB then fail to store anymore. But it will say 1tb or 999GB
It's pronounced shau mee
Every day's a school day! Thanks
Ehksomee😂
Why didn't you open it up? You would find a 32gb sd card in it. Why didn't you open it up FFS.
Simply “if it’s to good to be true” then it’s a fake or a scam.
Thanks.