*It's an obvious scam but people may still fall for it if they aren't too careful. Just be careful when buying stuff like this* Hey everyone, welcome back to another installment in my iWish series! I bought this as a pure curiousity and wanted to make a video on it and here we are. I know it's not much this week but it's something. Giveaway will be happening - I am sorry I am putting it off but I am hoping my Silver Play Button will arrive in the next week or so and then I can do one big video if that's ok. Let me know what you thought of this one down below and I promise this is the last time I'll look at one of these things. Unless I see a fake "1PB" one :) TIMESTAMPS: Introduction & Disclaimers: 0:00 The Listing & Clear Red Flags: 1:25 Unboxing: 3:46 The 128TB Drive & Taking it apart: 5:16 Plugging it into a PC & Running H2TestW: 6:28 The Results & showing how it works: 7:13 Final Thoughts, Be Cautious & Rambling: 8:45 Thanks for watching & Outro: 10:07 Be good people!
I was always confused by how people buy these and get scammed... Then I remembered that I have a sister who does that exact thing and never learns the lesson....
Well, people buying this actually do not need 128 TB or high transfer speeds. They usually just move pictures from their family vacation and would be equally well served with regular SD card.
The capacity spoofing is actually done by the card reader. There's a configuration section you can write to the start of the card to change the reader's configuration, such as its USB identity. If there's no configuration, the reader just works as a regular reader.
@@sihamhamda47 Yup. And not much more for a 1TB. Did just that recently with a 1TB Kioxia (Toshiba) Exceria G2 for a whopping 39eur shipped brand new. Stuck it into a USB-C enclosure and I now have a slightly oversized 1TB USB "stick" that's both faster (1GB per sec read and write) and worlds cheaper than actual large USB sticks. Somewhat annoyed with myself that I didn't go this route sooner tbh and blew a lot of money on supposedly "fast" USB sticks that all turned out to be crap
I call this the 2 in 1 scam, you think it's dirty cheap, what you get is so useless that you realize you could have brought real good quality products from a trusted brand with the money you spent in this crap lol A total humiliation, but seller is happy spending your money.
Kitty!!! 😍 Although, to be fair, I fully expected one really flat usb stick hot glued in that case, so... I was surprised! 😂 But, yeah, never buy any storage devices on wish or Aliexpress... NEVER, even if it looks "legit"! 😀
Love your first RED Flag looking at the largest offering from the major manufacturers. Those prices are another RED FLAG to me considering what 1TB - 2TB are going from other major sellers
Hello Ripley 💗💗💗💗 I bought a 64g memory card ages ago and it was half corrupted. It was like this with all the fake bells and whistles. True, always buy tech from real trusted companies 👍👀
Thank you, I got encountered by all these Lenovo 128TB ads on Ali yesterday, with "customers" showing pictures of them testing the discs to be A OK, and thought for a while that I had gone insane. 🙃
The fact that people still fall for this is mind-blowing Honestly I feel bad for those who actually bought this kind of devices and saved their pictures or important files there thinking they were safe and they lost everything
Don't feel, not at all, some people buy and trust this scam even if a techie person tell them to not buy, some think they are picking a great deal, almost scamming the seller lol later they call the person who told them to not buy this crap asking to recover files.
For some perspective I bought a Crucial 500GB for GB£23 yesterday from Ebay and it arrived the next day from Amazon. I checked the drive on an old laptop and it comes out at 500GB even though it took 24 ours (ish) to run the checks.
Bought from eBay, supplied by Amazon? 😮😅 Sort of supports my conspiracy theory when I was at a friend's house who had Alexa saying I needed a new bed, got home and got an offer from eBay about beds!
@ericpode6095 No conspiracy; the apps just listen and promote. More like one competitor trying to get the sale before the other. I rather their battles didn't waste my system resources and my time. I turn off all permissions on my apps until I really need them. I recommend everyone does that. For example many apps steal the contacts (that means any personal notes anyone applied to them like SSN info personal info etc.) On Android go into app options and permission areas and disable gps, contacts, microphone , reading email and text messages, and viewing/using the camera, etc. If really needed, set it to only have permission when using the app. While on the subject- Don't save passwords in the cloud. Make a unique password per site that doesn't use names, words, or dates. Similarly, it would be a good idea to run a VPN and security suite too. Pick the highest rated one. They offer password tools but if they, like any cloud storage, is hacked they get all the passwords. If you can say "hey Siri/Google/Alexa" and get a response you're being monitored by them. But the apps can listen to as previously mentioned. Good luck.
I have been to a factory in China wherein I saw a software in which they erase the real capacity and write any number they want. So a 64gb drive can be rewritten as 128gb, 256gb or 1/2/4 TB. When you plug in it will show the higher capacity and you would be fooled. The only way to check is to write the data and see the real speed and how much data it can take. If the real capacity is 64gb, it obviously can not take 70gb.
If your footage has been used without your permission by a third party (scammers, "companies" etc.) you could file a copyright/privacy complaint to prevent this to happen any further.
As much as I probably shouldn't encourage investigating it, I'm really curious if pre-configured Batocera emulation drives are sometimes doing this scam as well when they say they're however many terabytes worth of games.
Thanks for the interesting and i will say spectacular content, and also think its curious that we can see your hands from the start thats way more information than the standard. Neat. , thanks for doing it, keep the good work going!
One day they will shock you by including the real thing ... but probably not in my lifetime. PS - having watched a lot of AI related content lately your closing comment “Be good people” makes me think you are looking ahead to the time when all the artificial intelligences will be consuming your content. Good plan. 👍😀
Can you maybe get on of those 'Xioami" tablets (not a typo) that supposedly come with a Snapdragon 888 (yeah right)? Could be interesting to see what they really have inside.
Yeah, I paid $15 for a 2 Tb disk just to see if it was real, and no, it was a scam. The seller deletes its shop afterwards. It's a very silly scam, because they pay for shipping, a decent metal enclosure, a SD card reader and a sd card. They gain very little with it.
Lol for a few seconds i was so confused and was saying to myself "where the hell is the problem here, 128TB ssd for that price is little expensive", then i realized its "TB" not "GB" and almost cannot believed what i was thinking seconds before... No wonder people fall for this scam.
Think of all the people who believe the moon landing is fake and all the people who voted for Trump.....lol Never underestimate the power of stupidity....SIGH
Yes fake storage and graphic cards is hot, the worst is that all those cheap shit sites accept selling this stuff when in many cases you can easly tell that its fake
Aliexpress usually refund me quite quickly when there is genuinely an issue. I am wondering how easy/hard it is to get a refund from a intentional scammer? And yes I am seriously considering it a method to get some free SD cards...
Anyone that have at least 2 brain cells will known that such deals are way too good to be true. But there are a lot of people who don't have that many brain cells :( And here comes the interesting part - those people will buy the SSD, will plug that SSD to the computer, will copy a few small files there, perhaps some pictures or documents or a movie, will see that the files are ok, and they will conclude that EVERYTHING is ok. They won't even care about the speed. And they might never find out that there's a problem, they might not even use it further. Or they might backup their files there, but won't need to retrieve them. And if they use that SSD as a daily storage, it will take quite a while until they will find out there's "a problem", and them it will be too late for a refund.
The refund policy works a lot better on ebay from personal experience. I've always got my money back when there was a problem with a seller. Aliexpress on the other hand wants you to ship back the item to China (which costs over 40€ from my country!) and if the seller still don't want to refund you you'll get store credit instead
Seems like spelling out AE (as in the title of the video) in the comments gets them censored away by YT. Multiple of my comments and replies have disappeared after an F5. Very disappointing
Weird that these chinese sellers also tried this on Amazon, found some items there like this, they always put some item on there (like energy drink or other unsuspicios stuff) and then change the item to an external 128TB harddrive, retaining the good 5* reviews (even if they read "nice flavor"). And as always, there are some 1* ratings, but with over 3000 ratings they will not matter at the start until enough people report this item.
This product has greatly exceed my expectations"... "High quality materials"... "Everything conforms to the description"... Just a few of the glowing reviews, although there are many bad reviews by people who realised they've been taken for a ride.
they are all over amazon also for example i typed in "usb ssd" and got "Portable External Hard Drive with USB3.0, External Data Backup Hard Drive Type-C Slim Hard Drive Compatible with Mac, PC, Laptop, Desktop, Chromebook,4TB" for £26.09 a bargain me thinks.
real SSDs from AE are quite cheap. Recently i made an external usb with a SSD from a chinese company and it's great to use as a usb drive device. Just buy a proper external box for that ssd and will be fine
Wrote a lengthy reply to this only for youtube to censor it away because i said the sc word followed by "am" in it. or spelled out AE... who knows... not gonna retype everything
@@Akahigep wasn't directed at you personally. I wrote a long-ish reply about having done just that, but not relying on potential "sc" and "am" drives from AE, because SSDs were the cheapest they've ever been up to about a month ago from normal/local sources as well. No idea what youtube dislliked about it, but they automagically censored the reply out of existance (refreshed the page and it was gone entirely) and the reply further up was just me ranting about the censoring after finding that out :(
I'm curious what happens if you have 63 GB of files on there and try to put over 64 gigs. Would it break the old files or partially mess them up? With a video files, would they get cut off or be completely broken if they were getting overwritten? Would also be entertaining to put a bootable Windows or Linux on that USB drive / SD card reader, and run it while intentionally going over 64 gigs of storage space. It'd be funny to see if Windows or Linux starts corrupting like a Windows destruction
It's still quite scammy, but 64GB?! Gosh... I still have a Sandisk-branded 64GB USB drive that I've owned since 2021 and it still works fine, like, for me 64GB somewhat sounds decent in terms of external storage-related stuff
@@IsmaelWensder Yeah, I know. I remember taking a "4GB" MicroSD card out of a cheapo SDHC-to-USB adapter and it originally had music and it was actually 128MB. Formatted it and worked fine on some of my older phones with J2ME support
I am now subscribed. I don't even shop on those sites, mostly because I haven't heard of them. Only wish and temu I am aware of. As to what you just showed, it goes to prove the saying you (and your commenters) said [you know, ...too true...]. I don't know how long your videos are normally such that you are apologizing for an 11-minute one, but if it's good stuff, we'll watch and listen. Just please, continue to not use any music while you are speaking. Music being played while the YT host is speaking is distracting, annoying, and not helpful to the video at all. I am glad I didn't hear any here. Segues and such are ok with music.
I got a couple cheap security cameras from Amazon, Def wish quality, they work for my broke ass right now. But I wonder if I would have been able to get them cheaper on wish. And If I did would they be even worse quality?
Hehe, I always wanted to do something with my name backwards. I think it was originally the name of the second channel but I changed it to what it is now cause I was playing Saints Row the 3rd.
Actual 128 TB drives do exist, but they are the size of a Microwave Oven, and costs over $5,000 or more. Who would need 128 Terabytes (130,000 GB) anyway, unless you're a big media company.
But what about the non storage stuff you see on there and wish/temu etc? Like usb 3.0 cards, hubs, usb 3.0 to sata/ide converters, pci x4 and others to m2 or nvme or sata controller or ide controllers? And chinese motherboards and cpus. Also chinese nvme/ssds? All kinds of fun stuff to play to see what works and if it is what it claims to be.
Vast majority of the stuff will be underwhelming at best, or simply not last. Lots of cheap USB hubs technically work but can't carry any meaningful amount of current or have incredibly bad USB sockets (connection issues). I've also bought plenty of noname-y SSDs (kingspec, goldenfir, goodram, leven... or straight up no branding at all) both in 2.5" SATA form or mSATA for older laptops, and while they weren't the fastest things in the world, they did work... for less than 6 months before they randomly stopped being detected or corrupted all the data on them. Simply not worth the frustration for the little amount of money you save
the few things i bought that where legit. a drawing tablet. mostly recomended by osu players was like 20-30 bucks works great from 95 and up. a xiaomi powerbank 30.000mah with quick charge awesome even works semi decently with my steamdeck and quest2 a usb hub with storage with waterproof. it sure as shit aint fully waterproof. but it did prevent small water damage like rain/splashing and very recently bought a 32x32 led display. the only downside its hard to make custom stuff for it as u can only draw on ur phone. but thats fixed by hooking up a mouse to it. to draw more precise.
They're lowest-bidder crap. Slow as molasses and I wouldn't expect them to last any meaningful amount of time. They aren't fakes though so I guess that's at least some form of a plus...? Might be OK as just a test SSD for troubleshooting or something but I definitely wouldn't trust it with any important stuff or rely on it too much
They are not all the same, I have been using them for a few years now in my stills camera and 1080p 'dash cams', some have been good speed (ie 30mbps) some have been slow, but all reliable. the faster ones had a fancy swirly pattern printed on them, the slow ones where black/blue two tone printed
@@lezbriddon To be honest, I have already purchased a 1 TB SSD from Netac and installed it in my laptop, and it works pretty well so far. My laptop is noticeably faster and I've got no issues with the SSD until now.
Those Chinese brands like Netac and Kingspec, despite selling legit products, are known for doing bait and switch: first batches are very good at the price point they sell it, so it generates good reviews. After that they do lower quality batches. They are usually low on durability / endurance. They are still okish to use to run the o.s. but would not trust important files on those, in fact, backups are always the right way to go.
uh, uh - my guess before watching the video : USB board with 64GB micro SSD .... and now, watching for the conclusion... edit: well, i guess i was right - from watching most of your videos - there are just some guesses that are almost always correct. (like every Welcome device having a 6580 and ever SSD having a micro SD with 32 or 64 GB)
Mostly desperation, and wanting things to be true. The biggest issue is we have people telling us "Truth is what you believe" and "Manifest your own universe" and crap like that. It doesn't work, but people want it to be true so they keep trying. It's the same thing as people buying lotto tickets, sure they'll win because they are "manifesting their positive universe." Sure, I buy lotto tickets. Odds are I'll never win, but if I do, nice surprise. If I don't, it's a couple dollars. I won't die cutting a bit of soda out of my diet or something once a week. But don't buy a ticket thinking you can "manifest" a win. If that worked, the lotto system would be either broke, or everyone would get a refund of the 1 ticket they bought after the prize was divvied up. These scams are no different, no one is selling things at 99.8% off retail.
ok after recovering from laughing to frikin hard for how much low effort those things are i do have something similar to share. i was on temu serching for usb drives (i need a 64gb one) so out of all them there was one sold by (according to temu of course)... hp! like what the hell? so don't know if you are interested or someone is more informed than me, but it looks some scam to me lol. (btw nice hp laptop, it looks just like mine
How are these crap sellers not getting shut down, especially by the brsnds they might be knocking off? I swear the internet, and the laziness around some activities regarding security, is both a playground and a wasteland. The ability to generate anonymous emails, phone numbers, misinformation, and all kinds of accounts with no ties to your real identity or IP address via VPN etc, and lazy "jurisdictional barriers" etc, enable the worst people's behavior. Terms and conditions and privacy policies are a joke to these people, because it's not proactive, it's reactive. If an account gets shut down, there's no vetting to open 6 new ones. No real meaningful consequences. People who are gifted the human form and intelligence, throwing it away to live like a primitive degenerate parasite.
*It's an obvious scam but people may still fall for it if they aren't too careful. Just be careful when buying stuff like this*
Hey everyone, welcome back to another installment in my iWish series!
I bought this as a pure curiousity and wanted to make a video on it and here we are.
I know it's not much this week but it's something.
Giveaway will be happening - I am sorry I am putting it off but I am hoping my Silver Play Button will arrive in the next week or so and then I can do one big video if that's ok.
Let me know what you thought of this one down below and I promise this is the last time I'll look at one of these things. Unless I see a fake "1PB" one :)
TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction & Disclaimers: 0:00
The Listing & Clear Red Flags: 1:25
Unboxing: 3:46
The 128TB Drive & Taking it apart: 5:16
Plugging it into a PC & Running H2TestW: 6:28
The Results & showing how it works: 7:13
Final Thoughts, Be Cautious & Rambling: 8:45
Thanks for watching & Outro: 10:07
Be good people!
So true bro
agreed, you finally cleaned up aliexpress for anti-scam but great job! and keep it up the good work!!
I don't think the 1PB one will happen anytime soon since probably people who fall for this don't know what a petabyte is (or in general past TB)
Could you pls recommend a true SSD portable?
@@adefemisobalaje6845I recommend Sandisk or Samsung
I was always confused by how people buy these and get scammed... Then I remembered that I have a sister who does that exact thing and never learns the lesson....
exactly, i tell people about this all the time. They never learn. I'm starting to wonder if they suffer from some sort of brain issue. LOL
Yup told my dad all about the sketchy Chinese sites dude ignored me and told me I was wrong 😂
@@xtrance25they suffer from believing it because they want to believe it.
It's the same reason people believe what Republicans say.
Well, people buying this actually do not need 128 TB or high transfer speeds. They usually just move pictures from their family vacation and would be equally well served with regular SD card.
@@aleksazunjic9672except this will overwrite your old files
AliExpress is absolutely the last place I'd buy storage from, but even then Amazon doesn't do anything about fake storage popping up on there.
I've only been buying from Amazon when Amazon is the seller, to avoid scams.
I found your channel from the previous 8TB SSD video in 2020 and subbed not long after that.
The capacity spoofing is actually done by the card reader. There's a configuration section you can write to the start of the card to change the reader's configuration, such as its USB identity. If there's no configuration, the reader just works as a regular reader.
I was worried that you made a typo for a second. The funny thing is that even if you did, this would be expensive for a 128 GB SSD.
For $45 you can get a true 512GB NVME SSD and a NVME to USB enclosure
@@sihamhamda47 Yup. And not much more for a 1TB. Did just that recently with a 1TB Kioxia (Toshiba) Exceria G2 for a whopping 39eur shipped brand new. Stuck it into a USB-C enclosure and I now have a slightly oversized 1TB USB "stick" that's both faster (1GB per sec read and write) and worlds cheaper than actual large USB sticks. Somewhat annoyed with myself that I didn't go this route sooner tbh and blew a lot of money on supposedly "fast" USB sticks that all turned out to be crap
@@sihamhamda47its AUD
I call this the 2 in 1 scam, you think it's dirty cheap, what you get is so useless that you realize you could have brought real good quality products from a trusted brand with the money you spent in this crap lol
A total humiliation, but seller is happy spending your money.
Kitty!!! 😍 Although, to be fair, I fully expected one really flat usb stick hot glued in that case, so... I was surprised! 😂 But, yeah, never buy any storage devices on wish or Aliexpress... NEVER, even if it looks "legit"! 😀
Yep. Stick to walk in stores for computing devices.
Love your first RED Flag looking at the largest offering from the major manufacturers. Those prices are another RED FLAG to me considering what 1TB - 2TB are going from other major sellers
Hello Ripley 💗💗💗💗 I bought a 64g memory card ages ago and it was half corrupted. It was like this with all the fake bells and whistles. True, always buy tech from real trusted companies 👍👀
Thank you, I got encountered by all these Lenovo 128TB ads on Ali yesterday, with "customers" showing pictures of them testing the discs to be A OK, and thought for a while that I had gone insane. 🙃
The fact that people still fall for this is mind-blowing
Honestly I feel bad for those who actually bought this kind of devices and saved their pictures or important files there thinking they were safe and they lost everything
Don't feel, not at all, some people buy and trust this scam even if a techie person tell them to not buy, some think they are picking a great deal, almost scamming the seller lol later they call the person who told them to not buy this crap asking to recover files.
A SMOOREZ video of only 11 minutes instead of 6514 minutes? That's unfortunate I can't listen to nice rambling the whole afternoon?
5:19 hey where's my Xiaomi logo? I've been ripped off on my rip off product that I didn't buy that I'm just watching on TH-cam.
For some perspective I bought a Crucial 500GB for GB£23 yesterday from Ebay and it arrived the next day from Amazon. I checked the drive on an old laptop and it comes out at 500GB even though it took 24 ours (ish) to run the checks.
Bought from eBay, supplied by Amazon? 😮😅
Sort of supports my conspiracy theory when I was at a friend's house who had Alexa saying I needed a new bed, got home and got an offer from eBay about beds!
Yea, some eBay retailers in the U.K. use Amazon distribution.
@ericpode6095 No conspiracy; the apps just listen and promote. More like one competitor trying to get the sale before the other. I rather their battles didn't waste my system resources and my time.
I turn off all permissions on my apps until I really need them. I recommend everyone does that. For example many apps steal the contacts (that means any personal notes anyone applied to them like SSN info personal info etc.) On Android go into app options and permission areas and disable gps, contacts, microphone , reading email and text messages, and viewing/using the camera, etc. If really needed, set it to only have permission when using the app.
While on the subject- Don't save passwords in the cloud. Make a unique password per site that doesn't use names, words, or dates.
Similarly, it would be a good idea to run a VPN and security suite too. Pick the highest rated one. They offer password tools but if they, like any cloud storage, is hacked they get all the passwords.
If you can say "hey Siri/Google/Alexa" and get a response you're being monitored by them. But the apps can listen to as previously mentioned.
Good luck.
Aren't they getting double charged for hosting on two serial hosting/distribution services?
Great video. I really need to show this to some folks I know who I have a feeling are ready to buy cheap electronics from AliDepress, Switch, and Emu.
I have been to a factory in China wherein I saw a software in which they erase the real capacity and write any number they want. So a 64gb drive can be rewritten as 128gb, 256gb or 1/2/4 TB. When you plug in it will show the higher capacity and you would be fooled. The only way to check is to write the data and see the real speed and how much data it can take. If the real capacity is 64gb, it obviously can not take 70gb.
Really enjoyed UR excellent commentary!! At 81+, I have to be careful about’scams’ ! So many thanks and keep up the excellent reporting!!🥳🥳
But Smoorez, I've seen a 512TB SSD. Surely, that one is legit. (wink wink)
love how even chinese brands now have their own knockoffs
I was just looking at power banks there. I'll run now and never look back. Thank u
7:42 i like the casual steamdeck case in the bg
Congrats on 100k!! Tomorrow’s a stronger day! 💪💯
If your footage has been used without your permission by a third party (scammers, "companies" etc.) you could file a copyright/privacy complaint to prevent this to happen any further.
They could always pixelate the band aids...
Always awesomeness! Love the busting of SCAMS
As much as I probably shouldn't encourage investigating it, I'm really curious if pre-configured Batocera emulation drives are sometimes doing this scam as well when they say they're however many terabytes worth of games.
Thanks for the interesting and i will say spectacular content, and also think its curious that we can see your hands from the start thats way more information than the standard. Neat.
, thanks for doing it, keep the good work going!
One day they will shock you by including the real thing ... but probably not in my lifetime.
PS - having watched a lot of AI related content lately your closing comment “Be good people” makes me think you are looking ahead to the time when all the artificial intelligences will be consuming your content. Good plan. 👍😀
Can you maybe get on of those 'Xioami" tablets (not a typo) that supposedly come with a Snapdragon 888 (yeah right)? Could be interesting to see what they really have inside.
Lol this tablet lie so much is even funny, fake ram, fake storage, fake cpu.
WHY ARE ALL THE AUSSIE TECH TH-camRS SO GOOD MAN WHAAAT
Yeah, I paid $15 for a 2 Tb disk just to see if it was real, and no, it was a scam. The seller deletes its shop afterwards. It's a very silly scam, because they pay for shipping, a decent metal enclosure, a SD card reader and a sd card. They gain very little with it.
Lol for a few seconds i was so confused and was saying to myself "where the hell is the problem here, 128TB ssd for that price is little expensive", then i realized its "TB" not "GB" and almost cannot believed what i was thinking seconds before... No wonder people fall for this scam.
Always remember to use h2testw too.
It's your best friend in these scenarios
I honestly cannot believe people still fall for this crap...
Think of all the people who believe the moon landing is fake and all the people who voted for Trump.....lol
Never underestimate the power of stupidity....SIGH
Yes fake storage and graphic cards is hot, the worst is that all those cheap shit sites accept selling this stuff when in many cases you can easly tell that its fake
Aliexpress usually refund me quite quickly when there is genuinely an issue. I am wondering how easy/hard it is to get a refund from a intentional scammer?
And yes I am seriously considering it a method to get some free SD cards...
Anyone that have at least 2 brain cells will known that such deals are way too good to be true. But there are a lot of people who don't have that many brain cells :( And here comes the interesting part - those people will buy the SSD, will plug that SSD to the computer, will copy a few small files there, perhaps some pictures or documents or a movie, will see that the files are ok, and they will conclude that EVERYTHING is ok. They won't even care about the speed.
And they might never find out that there's a problem, they might not even use it further. Or they might backup their files there, but won't need to retrieve them. And if they use that SSD as a daily storage, it will take quite a while until they will find out there's "a problem", and them it will be too late for a refund.
The refund policy works a lot better on ebay from personal experience. I've always got my money back when there was a problem with a seller.
Aliexpress on the other hand wants you to ship back the item to China (which costs over 40€ from my country!) and if the seller still don't want to refund you you'll get store credit instead
Seems like spelling out AE (as in the title of the video) in the comments gets them censored away by YT. Multiple of my comments and replies have disappeared after an F5. Very disappointing
That's odd. Plenty of other people have commented with AliExpress in the comment. TH-cam just being TH-cam maybe?
Fantastic preview!👍
Weird that these chinese sellers also tried this on Amazon, found some items there like this, they always put some item on there (like energy drink or other unsuspicios stuff) and then change the item to an external 128TB harddrive, retaining the good 5* reviews (even if they read "nice flavor"). And as always, there are some 1* ratings, but with over 3000 ratings they will not matter at the start until enough people report this item.
Can't wait to get the 1000 superhypermegabytes SSD for a hundred bucks
I'm surprised that even the fakes are getting bigger in true capacity. Before I watched the video, I guessed 16GB.
They can be rejected from a reputable supplier, didn't pass quality test, you can use it for temporary storage but can't trust it.
It’s like my grandma used to say if it’s to good to be true then it’s a scam and don’t trust it
Given the fact that a Samsung 4Tb NVME sets you back €330 (worth it though), anything equal or above that costing less than €100 is a scam.
Looking forward to the Quantum Yotabyte drives in Wish/AliExpress.
They're making a killing at $50 for a 64gb micro SD. A super slow one at that.
People are so dumb that if that SSD had THE USUAL SCAM printed all over the box in neon light they'd still buy it 😂
I know right? It blows my mind that many people are still falling for that shit.
This product has greatly exceed my expectations"... "High quality materials"... "Everything conforms to the description"... Just a few of the glowing reviews, although there are many bad reviews by people who realised they've been taken for a ride.
i saw something like this while browsing through aliexpress just now. huh
SSD, yes, but that there is a high end SSD. You go so high end that you get the lowest end of higher end all over again. 😛
Waiting for 2 PB disks to show up on wish.
they are all over amazon also for example i typed in "usb ssd" and got "Portable External Hard Drive with USB3.0, External Data Backup Hard Drive Type-C Slim Hard Drive Compatible with Mac, PC, Laptop, Desktop, Chromebook,4TB" for £26.09 a bargain me thinks.
Thanks for the entertainment!
real SSDs from AE are quite cheap. Recently i made an external usb with a SSD from a chinese company and it's great to use as a usb drive device. Just buy a proper external box for that ssd and will be fine
Wrote a lengthy reply to this only for youtube to censor it away because i said the sc word followed by "am" in it. or spelled out AE... who knows... not gonna retype everything
@@Knaeckebrotsaege wut. I wrote my comment without any bad intention lol. Well, whatever
@@Akahigep wasn't directed at you personally. I wrote a long-ish reply about having done just that, but not relying on potential "sc" and "am" drives from AE, because SSDs were the cheapest they've ever been up to about a month ago from normal/local sources as well. No idea what youtube dislliked about it, but they automagically censored the reply out of existance (refreshed the page and it was gone entirely) and the reply further up was just me ranting about the censoring after finding that out :(
I'm curious what happens if you have 63 GB of files on there and try to put over 64 gigs. Would it break the old files or partially mess them up? With a video files, would they get cut off or be completely broken if they were getting overwritten?
Would also be entertaining to put a bootable Windows or Linux on that USB drive / SD card reader, and run it while intentionally going over 64 gigs of storage space. It'd be funny to see if Windows or Linux starts corrupting like a Windows destruction
It's still quite scammy, but 64GB?! Gosh... I still have a Sandisk-branded 64GB USB drive that I've owned since 2021 and it still works fine, like, for me 64GB somewhat sounds decent in terms of external storage-related stuff
Generic SD, it can be defective, weak sectors, didn't pass quality test, also it is modified capacity, and expensive because it's a scam.
@@IsmaelWensder Yeah, I know. I remember taking a "4GB" MicroSD card out of a cheapo SDHC-to-USB adapter and it originally had music and it was actually 128MB. Formatted it and worked fine on some of my older phones with J2ME support
Even if the board is USB 3 the media is slow ASF, So you would need to put a higher end microsd card in and retest
Hey SMOOREZ, have you heard of the android projector?
Which one? There's plenty of that junk around.
@@shabath the cheaper ones
That these scam companies use your footage to promote their products is just so scummy
only 10 minutes ? I miss the rambling 😂
Nice red colour.... what else would you expect?
Great, Thanks !!! 👍
A little squirt of rubbing alcohol will pop that hot glue clean off it's a miracle.
I am now subscribed. I don't even shop on those sites, mostly because I haven't heard of them. Only wish and temu I am aware of. As to what you just showed, it goes to prove the saying you (and your commenters) said [you know, ...too true...].
I don't know how long your videos are normally such that you are apologizing for an 11-minute one, but if it's good stuff, we'll watch and listen. Just please, continue to not use any music while you are speaking. Music being played while the YT host is speaking is distracting, annoying, and not helpful to the video at all. I am glad I didn't hear any here. Segues and such are ok with music.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
I got a couple cheap security cameras from Amazon, Def wish quality, they work for my broke ass right now. But I wonder if I would have been able to get them cheaper on wish. And If I did would they be even worse quality?
TB is obviously the chinese translation for Terrible Bytes.
Do you record your videos outdoors. No, you record then in ZEROOMS.
Hehe, I always wanted to do something with my name backwards. I think it was originally the name of the second channel but I changed it to what it is now cause I was playing Saints Row the 3rd.
oh my god they used Xiaomi. Now that’s just a shame because that brand is amazing
I guess a 32-64GB microSD card.
iWish I was dead
Where are you actually able to purchase undelivered items?
i bought a 64GB USB stick from Walmart and it was 32GB.
Actual 128 TB drives do exist, but they are the size of a Microwave Oven, and costs over $5,000 or more. Who would need 128 Terabytes (130,000 GB) anyway, unless you're a big media company.
Ripley!
What if you our the sad card in a Nintendo switch will it come up as 100tb
Amazon is still happy to sell these things
But what about the non storage stuff you see on there and wish/temu etc? Like usb 3.0 cards, hubs, usb 3.0 to sata/ide converters, pci x4 and others to m2 or nvme or sata controller or ide controllers?
And chinese motherboards and cpus. Also chinese nvme/ssds?
All kinds of fun stuff to play to see what works and if it is what it claims to be.
Vast majority of the stuff will be underwhelming at best, or simply not last. Lots of cheap USB hubs technically work but can't carry any meaningful amount of current or have incredibly bad USB sockets (connection issues). I've also bought plenty of noname-y SSDs (kingspec, goldenfir, goodram, leven... or straight up no branding at all) both in 2.5" SATA form or mSATA for older laptops, and while they weren't the fastest things in the world, they did work... for less than 6 months before they randomly stopped being detected or corrupted all the data on them. Simply not worth the frustration for the little amount of money you save
the few things i bought that where legit.
a drawing tablet. mostly recomended by osu players was like 20-30 bucks works great from 95 and up.
a xiaomi powerbank 30.000mah with quick charge awesome even works semi decently with my steamdeck and quest2
a usb hub with storage with waterproof. it sure as shit aint fully waterproof. but it did prevent small water damage like rain/splashing
and very recently bought a 32x32 led display. the only downside its hard to make custom stuff for it as u can only draw on ur phone. but thats fixed by hooking up a mouse to it. to draw more precise.
Have you ever tested SSD disks from the brand Netac? Are they any good?
They're lowest-bidder crap. Slow as molasses and I wouldn't expect them to last any meaningful amount of time. They aren't fakes though so I guess that's at least some form of a plus...? Might be OK as just a test SSD for troubleshooting or something but I definitely wouldn't trust it with any important stuff or rely on it too much
They are not all the same, I have been using them for a few years now in my stills camera and 1080p 'dash cams', some have been good speed (ie 30mbps) some have been slow, but all reliable. the faster ones had a fancy swirly pattern printed on them, the slow ones where black/blue two tone printed
@@lezbriddon To be honest, I have already purchased a 1 TB SSD from Netac and installed it in my laptop, and it works pretty well so far. My laptop is noticeably faster and I've got no issues with the SSD until now.
Those Chinese brands like Netac and Kingspec, despite selling legit products, are known for doing bait and switch: first batches are very good at the price point they sell it, so it generates good reviews. After that they do lower quality batches. They are usually low on durability / endurance. They are still okish to use to run the o.s. but would not trust important files on those, in fact, backups are always the right way to go.
@@JonGallon yes my original cards were better than later ones
I buy 4tb ssd from AliExpress but i need this for my ps3 games not to backup its bad idea??
$45 is a crap price for a 64gig MSD and a card reader though.
Ripley's a cutie :)
uh, uh - my guess before watching the video : USB board with 64GB micro SSD .... and now, watching for the conclusion...
edit: well, i guess i was right - from watching most of your videos - there are just some guesses that are almost always correct. (like every Welcome device having a 6580 and ever SSD having a micro SD with 32 or 64 GB)
It’s obvious. A 1TB Nvme ssd from a branded company costs about £70.
They aren't very smart... if they wanted to rip people off why don't they just say its 500gb or 1tb and get more customers?
Well I was wondering if you bought a fake usb flash drive find out the capacity then replace the controller to one with the correct storage
Mostly desperation, and wanting things to be true. The biggest issue is we have people telling us "Truth is what you believe" and "Manifest your own universe" and crap like that. It doesn't work, but people want it to be true so they keep trying.
It's the same thing as people buying lotto tickets, sure they'll win because they are "manifesting their positive universe." Sure, I buy lotto tickets. Odds are I'll never win, but if I do, nice surprise. If I don't, it's a couple dollars. I won't die cutting a bit of soda out of my diet or something once a week. But don't buy a ticket thinking you can "manifest" a win. If that worked, the lotto system would be either broke, or everyone would get a refund of the 1 ticket they bought after the prize was divvied up. These scams are no different, no one is selling things at 99.8% off retail.
When enterprise disks are 30tb you know this 128tb is a scam.
My guess is sd card maybe 16gb
Micro SD is my guess
ok after recovering from laughing to frikin hard for how much low effort those things are i do have something similar to share. i was on temu serching for usb drives (i need a 64gb one) so out of all them there was one sold by (according to temu of course)... hp! like what the hell? so don't know if you are interested or someone is more informed than me, but it looks some scam to me lol. (btw nice hp laptop, it looks just like mine
The bubble wrap is worth more than the drive.
do they refund the $50 ?
"Original" instead of "Official" in the store it's name is also a red flag.😉
How are these crap sellers not getting shut down, especially by the brsnds they might be knocking off?
I swear the internet, and the laziness around some activities regarding security, is both a playground and a wasteland. The ability to generate anonymous emails, phone numbers, misinformation, and all kinds of accounts with no ties to your real identity or IP address via VPN etc, and lazy "jurisdictional barriers" etc, enable the worst people's behavior. Terms and conditions and privacy policies are a joke to these people, because it's not proactive, it's reactive. If an account gets shut down, there's no vetting to open 6 new ones. No real meaningful consequences.
People who are gifted the human form and intelligence, throwing it away to live like a primitive degenerate parasite.
You can get a decent 512GB SD Card price of $45
My order 12 dollars I don't receive my order and Ali express helpline no work
A lot of AliExpress stuff is legit, but if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.
It's way too overpriced for a 64 GB SD card 😂
I was before you all
I am like number 65
Hi
I don't no where is my money Ali express not good
hell0 any one know how can i get that black sd card reader ? i like it