Fake SSD from AliExpress | How to recognize a fake
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Is there magic outside of Hogwarts? The Chinese boldly answer - yes, offering a couple of thousand fast SSDs for a dozen terabytes with any stickers to choose from. But what lies behind the fake Samsung and Kingston? How to determine that the capacities of such drives are overestimated by an order of magnitude? How to explain to AliExpress correctly that Xiaomi and WD never released these SSDs? We tell the whole ins and outs of Chinese rice and flash.
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i saw one of those "factories" in China few years ago. A friend working there said that apparently only about 10-30% of customers ask for a refund and since they are selling garbage(bought from major manufacturers the cheapest (grade c or worse = garbage) in wholesale) they would still make profit even if 90% of customers had to be refunded. biggest problem is that platforms(like ali mentioned in this video) keep shutting them down and they have to keep reopening new sellers accounts. There is a minimal risk of being busted by authorities but from his experience hes only ever heard of a few of these busts/raids in over a dozen years. So unless something changes i would not expect this problem to go away anytime soon - so just use your common sense(too good to be true rule) and make sure to buy wherever you can ask for a refund from a platform itself and not only from a seller(they might be gone by then with new name/account open)
Probably the best and most explicit/honest video on fake products (in this case storage) from Chinese resellers I´ve seen on RUclips. No fuss, just how it is and works with the dispute process and all. Thumbs up!
It's sad to see what Mikael tells us, that there isn't any good Software which could unveil the real capacity of a fake SSD, because I"ve known that there's a software imbedded in the device which simmulates those terabytes, cheating any and every benching software, which check it as a good and faithful device.
Then he says that we could find a Script or a Link in the Description that could do the job, but I couldn't find that. I went to his Profile, but there's nothing about that there too. Does anybody know something about that?
@@mauriciothesouza4195 Huh? What do I have to do with this video? I only made a comment.
@@mikaelandersson4733
Oh, sorry, I thought you was the author, who is Mikael too, he he...
Aliexpress Деньги не ВОЗВРАЩАЕТ???? Предлагают выслать товар обратно ?))))))
We all should thank wonderful china for all the FAKES and REVIEWS like this! Long live corporate GREED! lol
Have had one of those 2TB 2.5" SATA SSD's. Complained to seller who did not listen. Opened dispute with Aliexpress and after some forth and back I got my money back, but Aliexpress did NOT acknowlegde the drive was fake. SHAME ON YOU ALIEXPRESS!
How you gat money back from AliExpress, can you tell me how you did this
@@UsingUsing01 Just open the dispute. all my previous disputes ended in my favor, full refund without even having to send back the junk.
Call support and explain the SSD didn't work, the full time maybe this process is 20 min @user-wj2np6wy1i
@@UsingUsing01 That must have been way back. Nowadays, Aliexpress will not refund you, but ask you to ship the item back at your own expense.
Walmart sells same crap now.... beware.. Walmart will not stand behind their umm 3rd party sales........ wd reds which are not but are goldfirs t650 1000. Read write via usb just fine so far but sata connection .... nothing.. smh
I was going to buy a suspicious 1tb sata ssd on Ebay from a Chinese seller and I asked the seller if it was fake and he straight up told me they were. Some sellers will only tell you the truth if you pry for it, and even then they speak in a sort of riddle to avoid directly answering the question but they answer it non the less.
Thank you for exposing these scams. Looks like avoiding Ali Express might be advisable!
well maybe for SSDs. id still recommend getting other doodads!
For someone reason, these guys aren't using fake brand names. The ones their "factories" send in our country put brand names and copy the packaging.
Most of cases since it involves politician side money
Hey man. There's no link in the description to the script
If buying for SSD's on AliExpress buy from brands you can only find there, it's more likely the little unknown rando is more real than the supposed known brand
New sub here...
Thanks for that Axoflash test info. I want to test and restore the original capacities of the fake sd cards and usb flash drives that's lying around here so I can still somewhat still use it for emulation of games.
i am one of the victim of this SSD.
So I made the mistake of buying a 2T SSD for 12.00 or so. When I got the drive it looked nice and actually reported to windows as a 2T SSD. However when I tried to copy 200gb of music files to it it was very slow 1-5 mb or even slower. I tried a quick reformat of the drive and this seemed to work but I had the same issue. I then tried a deep format. This whipped out the drive completely and windows no longer could see it. Even using disk manager.
so I opened a dispute with the aliexpress. The seller or Ali sent me a return label with shipping paid. they said this was a one time discount of 7.99. I tried to talk to the seller but that portion of their site is under construction. So I packaged the drive up and put the label on it. It's going back to New Jersey. We will see if I ever get a refund. Unfortunately I ordered two 2TB flash sticks for 5.00/each that have yet to arrive. I'm sure they will have similar issues. I've purchased some fun stuff from Aliexpress but you have to be careful
Thank you for this deep, informative and comprehensive video!
Hey about that 2tb being $90. There currently (prob on sale but currently) 2tb ssd from teamz and PNY for about ~$65.
and as of today, a "Western Original" 8TB NVMe for $60!
The one and only trick is NOT to buy ANY form of device to store your data on. The counterfeits will let you down, and the legit stock is more expensive than buying locally. But I get it; it's great for creating content. Only this has been done too many times now.
AliExpress doesn't ban these sellers. If they would actively ban them, there wouldn't be that many of them.
this must be true as I have actively reported a few. however it definitely is a giant of whack a mole.
Yeah. NEVER order from AliExpress or Temu.
Excellent video. You got a new sub.
You said that it is not worth to dispute. You mean I must push Refund button and it means that I contact AliExpress, after not accepting to send another drive and small 2$?
Thanks, I won $50
Is he going to tell us that this ssd is so slow, it's showen whole time in this video but he didn't said anything
dude your killing me, i've need a 300g-320g ssd and the only one i can find that isn't hundreds of dollars is the netac, even though i had never heard of the brand after day of searching i finally had talked myself into buying the natec ssd but now after watching your videos on ssd's i'm back to square one, i saved $70 but still don't have a 300g ssd, one company wants over $700 for an intel 300g ssd, i'm not getting the the deal is with 300g ssd's, i've been running a $60 team group 256g ssd for over a year without a problem and to get a 512 isn't much more so why are 300's so expensive and rare.............
Western Digital Global Online Store Store on aliexpress is fake?
Thanks dude❤
Only fools love AliExpress
I buy Chinese ssds, but don't buy from these suspicious sellers, buy from huawei or Xiaomi etc instead
Just don't buy anything from China.. ya just giving money to the CCP and putting compromised hardware in your computer witch is highly likely to have malicious microcode.. nothing from China is safe it's that simple.
@@michaellegg9381fact is most of tech is produced in china be it fake sketchy tech or your precious nvidia GPU or your smartphone
@@riddhirahman assembled in china and India yes but the core components and all integrated chips are made in USA at TSMC and other American chip fabs.. China and India and Russia have chip fabs but don't make any parts sold legally in the west.. and there chips are slow and garbage
why you buy fake ssd？
you should buy zhitai/kingbank/ etc...
:
yangtze memory128 nano+lianyun1602
长江存储128nano+联芸1602
He did it on purpose. Mocking Made in China gets attention
He does it on purpose knowing that China Bashing is good for viewership. Never ever seen him review a Zhitai/Fanxiang with YMTC 232-layers before.
@@yunlin4319 Ahaha, imagine the chinese folks defending their scams and calling it 'mocking' and even try to advertise other junk.
You guys are completely delusional, out of this world ;))))))
Thank you for sharing the video with the helpful information. Unfortunately, I fell victim to a scam last year when I purchased a solid-state drive that was supposed to be 1 TB. After installing it, my computer kept crashing, and I initially thought it was a software problem. However, after some time, I realized that the SSD was the root cause of the problem. I replaced it with a genuine SSD, and my computer has been working smoothly ever since.
I never buy cheap fake chinese SSD, RAM, Flash Drives and Graphic Card. I'm rather buy real name brand such as Samsung, Corsair, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, WD, Sandisk, ADATA, Timetec, Memoz, Hynix, Crucial, PNY, Teamgroup, Kingston and Toshiba.
You should never cheap out on storage. If you cannot afford an ssd from a good source, wait a little more or buy a good quality HDD, if you have this option.
Almost the correct answer, wait a bit more and then buy the SSD
you lost me at HDD. Get an SSD if you can.
Yes but also no, there is lot of reputable chinese SSD brand around in Aliexpress, sure the speed may feel slower a bit, but who cares if it can just do the job?
@@thelonercoder5816HDDs are fine for many jobs. u can get a 14TB refurb Enterprise drive for $100 now - that's $7/TB!
Cool and informative video, im on the way to make similar video in portuguese.
Pro tip:
1.check the buyers review, particularly the one star reviews and read why stared so low
2.don't dismiss any red flag
3. uses common sense
Dear Russian friend, we are very sorry that fake Samsung ssd is circulating.😢😢bad China
well ... I have to say it about that.. you bouth that gpu and it died after 1 month of use sadly and is kinda unlucky so , I bough a GTX 1660S for 150$ from aliexpress in april this year and after 4-5 months it works perfectly fine (before changing the termal paste and termal pads after one month of use because it starts heating to much [80*C] ) so...what I mean is that they are not all fake is just random luck and you have to be carefull at what you want to buy
Great Vlog, when I rate negativ Aliexpress goods, then my Aliexpress account get blocked, for several month
All I need to know is to put some product to the search engine and see how much Aliexpress asks for them, vs real deal. The same on Amazon or ebay. Chinese penetrated our market, you throw it out of the door, they throw it back through the window.
While Aliexpress does have sellers that sell genuine SSDs, there's a lot of scammers out there.
That 4TB SSD drive that looks like a Western Digital Sata SSD is really just an overpriced 120GB SSD.
Well even if the advertised storage is correct, the seller might say the SSD drive uses TLC NAND when in reality it uses much slower QLS NAND
Thank you! I looked around and came across many useless videos but your one was very helpful and informative! I'm at work now so will try later to check for fakeness. Is there anything that you can recommend for checking authenticity of wd sn740 1tb 2230 in a steamdeck? (so Linux). Perhaps aida64 will work there. I'm fairly computer illiterate...
If it came with the steamdeck pre-installed and you bought it brandnew then it’s 100% authentic. Why would you even doubt Steam’s products in the first place 😂😂😂
@@shinjihirako4773it didn't come with the steam deck...
Many thanks for very descriptive video.
I almost fell for a ssd, as there are many reviews with five stars. Either the reviewers are ignorant OR fake.
You saved me good 30-40 USD and most of all, saved from the embarrassment.
Fuckin commie's 😂
Most or some of these have probably got a mobile micro ssd soldered into board
And here's the hard truth about SSDs in Aliexpress... The genuine ones have roughly the same price as the ones sold in your average store. A 4TB sata ssd costs the same everywhere.
Could not, it is better do not buy anything china pages
I hate Chinese scammer
Always contact the seller first. Tell them you are going to use h2testw software to test speed and capacity and ask them if it's fake you will get a refund without returning item. If you get a clear response agreeing they will refund without return then its most likely ok. If they give polite but not agreeing response like don't worry friend is good. Then it's fake.
I will never buy any storage again on AliExpress. Bought supposedly 32/64GB HP and Kingston drives but the write speed is so terrible, it starts fast sometimes and then slows down under 10MB/s, the next min it keeps hovering between 10MB/s and 20MB/s while my real Kingston USB drive consistently stays at 20MB/s or 21MB/s.
Im old enough to have paid $300 (on sale at Fry's) for a 1gb hard drive to add to my screaming fast Pentium 90 running Windows 95.
Actually, I'm even older. I learned to program in Basic on on a Tandy 8088 and how to write to & read data from punch cards. And how torroid memory coils were wound, assembled in a course in college.
My personal experience with Ali Express:
Fake items:
Grafisch cards
Lenovo 2 tb USB sticks and other no name brands
SSDs
All my items bought from ALI EXPRESS are like weekends; they don't last long, even shorter than a weekend, if not immediately.
Help desk are very polite, but that's the psychology in the game.
Don't buy any electronic and PC storage items from AE
This is an old scam. They started by doing this with USB sticks. And they're widespread, to the point where it's pointless to buy USB sticks on AliExpress, or even Amazon.
Aliexpress is good for cases or tech gadget but not for memories, they are more or less all garbage or costs same as here in offer.
Thanks for your video. Got refunded by AliExpress after taking your advice. 🙂
I'm a regular buyer on Aliexpress and, on balance, very happy with what I get, which is sometimes surprisingly good quality. However I got sucked in with the blue and white SSD that is being used as a reference. Yet I had purchased another (same capacity) brand that cost about 15 bucks more only a few months before and have had no problems with it. Well I won't get fooled again (till the next time)
I did also :-( but equally, I do purchase many items via Aliexpress and seldom have issues. Cheers mate
Your kitty wants to investigate your chinese pc junk you bought from Alixpress, i saw it looking at the monitor
pls how can i get the software you used, cux i bought an 4TB drive and it works only upto 60gb then everything starts getting corrupt. Aliexpress isnt helping matters,
easy, I only buy no names on aliexpress, if it has any recognized name it's probably fake xD Heck, I only buy no name or 2nd/3rd tier brands SD cards even locally because getting something like samsung or sandisk you get 50% chance to get a fake, no one is gonna bother faking brands like patriot, goodram or DSP xD
Good job. Thank you very much for this recording. I just wanted to buy the M2 Drive on AliExpress because the price seemed attractive to me. I won't do it now. I added you to my subscriber list. Thank you again. Greetings from Poland
Of course these are fake, What did you expect for the price? I have never had a problem with AliExpress regarding refunds. You do need to supply proof of item is not as described or defective, including photos, screenshots etc. I always use paypal as well for backup. So not only do you get your money back, You usually get to keep the item as well.
There's many places online to buy good, reasonably priced computer parts. Myself, since I have a computer store less than 20 minutes from me, I rather prefer to shop there for my parts, in case I have a problem or issue, I can go back there for help.
chips cost pennies and ssd market is just greedy. makers are so accustomed to 20x profits that they wont negotiate.
This is why I buy my stuff in Amazon never had an issues with fake stuffs, and never will go to AliExpress I don't trust Chinese stuffs.
But how to get money back after bought this fake SSD
I have ordered an 512 GB ssd goldenfir for 27 dollar , I convinced that it is really not fake by the review , and now I saw your video and I have question , my ordered not arrived yet , can I cancel the order and get money back
PURTROPPO Ho comprato una SSD NO NOME da Aliexpress a 26 euro da 2 TERA , e arriva in 15 giorni , la installo interno come secondi disco per copiare dati e video , ma dopo averla formattata e copiato dati , arrivato a circa 80 giga , ha cominciato a rallentare vistosamente fino a arrivare alla velocita di 2 mb sec dai 100 Mb sec da cui era iniziato , andando avanti , dopo qualche minuto la SSD SCOMPARE , il sistema la vede solo riaccendendo il PC e se provi a caricare qualcosa , scompare ... RIFATTO LA PROVA 2 VOLTE
NON CE VERSO DI CARICARE OLTRE I 80 - 90 Giga ... mentre risulta una SSD da 2 TERA .... capisco che il prezzo è molto basso ma qua mi pare ci sia una bella truffa se ne vende tante , sono 26 euro per una cosa che non serve a niente ... o no ???? Che mi consigli di fare ? SONO TUTTE FAKE ????
Bravo ottimo video , fai ancora divulgazione perche il problema siamo noi , che non siamo preparati , invece su ALIEXPRESS ti fregano quasi sempre con metodi collaudati specialmente elettronica con FAKE SSD che contengono una SD e firmware falso che ti fa vedere 2 TB e invece sono da pochi Gb , arrivato a caricare 40 gb si blocca tutto e se chiedi il rimborso non ti danno nulla perche la prova che mandi per loro non è mai sufficente , stessa cosa con le schede video che costano poco , sono quasi uguali all originli ma non valgono nulla e si bloccano dopo poco per via dei firmware taroccati , stessa cosa per i componenti , Transistor regolatori ecc che sono come gli originali ma che se li monti si bruciano dopo poco perche non hanno le caratteristiche degli originali , stessa cosa per le fotocamere e microscopi che hanno le lenti in plastica e dopo qualche mese le immagini diventano grige e prive di colore , ci stanno riempiendo di immondizia ben camuffata e non rimborsano quasi mai a parte se sono cose evidenti e di pochi soldi altrimenti .. la prova non è sufficente e la questione è chiusa .... DIVULGA NOTIZIE CHE SI SAPPIA !!!
Zhina rubbish alot, i never use them
Scammers get angry at the prospect of not getting paid for their scam.
can you fix one of these drives? or just write less than 100gb in and will be fine
Most important: Check reviews(and filter)
The audacity of those Chinese scammers. They even want to argue!
at 4:50 you have mentioned that it has 2 banks each 64 total 128 may I know where it wouls say the capacity of each bank and can you share the tool so that i can check my ssd too?
why are you calling them samsung or western digital? they look similar but there are no branding on the ssds...I was worried that the branded wd and samsung ones on aliexpress were fake.
Clickbait, ironic how fake thumbnail calling out fake SSDs
LOL, once again nice demonstration. Thanks for the info.
Where is the link to download the software you mention,not even in the scripts provided,it's left out. I could make the case you yourself is a scammer.
He said the program like 5 times in the video, just Google the name and done, or your a lazyhoe
我们将解决这些问题并在下一个假货上做得更好
Thanks
Make a better fake ssd so we can buy it for cheap price
Ive had a few of these as i have 140,000 old house eps.and jeed storage. Most have just been flashed to look larger than thay are ajd w9rk until you hit the orignal limit then failure. Do thw right thing, get a proper ssd from a proper company.
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Why would you pay £25 for a 16gb portable ssd when you can buy a 16gb USB3 flash drive for less than £5 from Scan which is reliable seller in the UK?
For 25 pounds you can get 128GB Sandisk flash drive from official store
There are some 4090 and 4080 GPUs for 300 to 400 I wish you can review them. They have a 90 day return policy
One of the most useful videos I've seen, thanks a lot.
is it me or the video is out of sync with the audio?
He speaks Russian, or so, english version was added after.
That's why you think is out of sync.
Sad, mine doesn't even work, I got nothing from it, maybe I'll dissect it for fun to see how it works, or was supposed to work
Ali Express is criminal and s/b punished severely
It's like calling Amazon criminal, Ali is a sales platform just like Amazon.
how to format to real capacity?
how to spot a fake from aliexpress ???? Its from aliexpress
Another trick is to reformat the drive after getting it. Many times those controllers can't handle the reformat and will break...
Too easy I wont buy anything off AliExpress just for that reason and the Company knows full well a lot of what stock from vendors is fake. Typical Chinese attitude towards their customers
Is NVme or Sata SSDs disks are usable if I format them with disk part with disk part for only volume of 100 GB? Therre is an article that you can do it with USB drives in article "AIDA64 - How to detect the real capacity of storage devices with AIDA64".
Assume everything you buy on aliexpress ...temu etc is questionable and dont pay large amounts as noonebis going to ship back to china...that said i did get allot of cool stuff on temu ...that which would sell for dollars more on amazon.Its how much risk your willing to take.High priced items only buy from vendor with reasonable return policy
No rice for you. I shouldn’t laugh as a fellow Asian, but damned if that’s not hilarious. 😂
Hes doing the chinese kung fu film dubbing again
lol I totally thought something was wrong w YT today! 😂
Your cat did not approve. It's a good cat and hates when non-technical people are scammed.
I say every person who watches this video should go buy one of these drives. Then refund it because it's fake. AliExpress needs to have a better grip on what's being sold on their platform.
Refund 1$ and send another drive 🤣🤣
Just paid $31 for a 512Gb Netac Nvme from Aliexpress. I sure hope it's genuine😅
Just discovered mine is fake in a pc I bought. It’s been slowing down for a few days now it won’t even boot. Pain in the backside.
Thanks, comrade. Almost got myself into being scammed 5 years down the road
There’s a delay with your voice
It seems rusian channel translated to english.
i mean, these ssds are cleary fake, if u want buy something legit, try to look the store and reviews fr buyers
Thanks mate cancelled the order and got a full refund before they could dispatch. Cheers!!
why does the video not match the audio ?
russian channel translated to english
He said that he would leave the link in the description but ofc he never did lmao.
I love Aliexpress, but only non electrical stuff because I can't trust them..
AliExpress jst etote me that they do not care about the fake drives.