Actually, female type-c ports can be had for pretty low, between $0.20-$3, but if you mean that micro-SD (or it only support TF-card?) to USB-C, then yeah it is.
you joke , but that is a product that is currently available. the idea is you cover the usb and blob with another plastic molding of a shape you decide. its a fixed size and never meant to be disassembled. Generally just for cheap custom flash drives.
Why do people never learn? There is absolutely no problem in life that cannot be resolved with the judicious and plentiful application of high explosives.
@@tobiwonkanogy2975 if the USB port was built right could make for a good water proof USB thumb drive likely only good for transporting data in extreme environments maybe for wild life photographers or footage from the artic sometimes the footage is worth far more then the camera and durning an emegency ware allot of gear has to be abandoned a dozen normal off the shelf size USB thumb drives can hold allot of footage and be easy to carry compared to a laptop or even a portable hard drive and even if these devices are one time use devices because of reliability and the value of the data I am sure they would have some resale value on the open market for those who just want reliable and tough gear rather it to transport data while on a motor cycle or just going to a friends house with the latest movie on a cold winter day its not a bad idea
Considering you could not even retrieve a file from it, I imagine that unbranded SD card was one that did not pass even the lowest bin quality control at the factory. It has just enough integrity to register as an SD in windows and report a false capacity. This is e-waste made from e-waste.
It ARE rejects. That's the only way they can make this a profitable scam. I've very rarely seen MicroSD scams actually work and even if they work, they are often an arbitrary amount like GB and incredibly slow. They just one upped this scam a bit, instead of selling broken GB MicroSD cards as > 1TB MicroSD cards (that was the OG scam), they're now selling them as SSD "SDUD" DRIVES. The shells in which they come are probably also Q.C. rejects and I wouldn't be surprised the conversion adapter is also reject. The only valuable thing in this - and probably the only thing passing the test - was the glue. It's really sad, because a lot of people fall for scams like these thinking they scored a great deal, simply because they do not understand the technology at all and did little to no research other than price comparisons finding the most amount of storage for the least amount of investment. Worst part is, the end user probably thinks it works as intended (granted the device actually works) if they are on a computer not supporting high bandwidth USB.
First thing i would have tried would have been a file system rebuilder to see the real capacity when hacked that way the cards will store what can fit then the rest just sorta dissappears as it is written to sectors that physically dont exist. Which is why i would have tried a txt file first to see if it actually could store something.
Yes this is typical and then a 16tb in this case boot sector is written to whatever good memory is there. So it has all of the file table that it needs the table just points to and writes to sectors that don't exist... My question that occurs to me now is that adaptor if he had not caveman opened the drive would the adaptor have worked with real sd cards...
Solid Dud. Prank drive you're meant to buy these for those ignorant folk who love to brag about specs for stuff they don't even want or need. That way they will have this and be able to brag about 16 TB and never know the difference & they will throw it away when their data disappears in a few months & quit trying to do something they don't understand. I know the exact person to buy this for.
I learned my lesson years ago when I bought 512GB flash drive from Alliexpress. After exceeding 8GB all files were getting corrupted. Apparently the 512GB was overlapping the same 8GB of actual storage over and over again. Never again I will buy any electronics from Wish or Aliexpress.
If it is to good to be true, it isn’t. Stick with identifiable name brands. Same with the stupid Facebook ads for 79$ laptops. Luckily PayPal reversed the charges for me after a while. Sheisters need their 🤬 lights punched out!
Company selling that garbage are: Alibaba, ebay and AlliExpress, be carefull, in china exist many out law factories, the best is no to bay electronic products from China, especially if there are unbranded watch out for smart phones.
The crazy thing to me is, I’d gladly pay $26 for a USB-C to 3x Micro-SD reader! That thing would be a godsend for my workflow, and I know people would pay good money for those if people would just be honest about what they’re selling!
I imagine they would sell more trying to scam people like this than if they were to sell the adapters directly. These adapters would also be using extremely cheap and poor quality controllers with low transfer speeds and reliability that I would not trust using them at all for any purpose, so even if they were honest about selling an adapter it would still be poor cheap quality product you should avoid.
At least it's almost on par, cost wise. Imagine if they were charging thousands then jumping ship after each batch go out. If it were the new Ebay you'd be screwed, with no more external payment providers being able to refund, you'd be up against the criminal behemoth itself. Scary stuff... 26 bucks it just a bit of fun, a perfect gift for frenemies.
Pretty standard stuff on cheap memory devices from China. If something seems cheap ($/GB wise) it's probably fake. They do this on all sorts of storage devices. Flash drives and SD cards are the most common one. SSDs not so much. What they do is they take the cheapeast lowest bin flash chips (usually few 10GB in real size) pair it with the cheapst and slowest flash controller and upload a modified firmware, so it reports higher capacity to the OS. It sorta works, but your data will either get overwritten or just ignored when you pass the real size. A neat little trick you can do (only works with usb drives, sd cards don't work) is to use manufacturs production tools (available for most of these drives) and reinitialize them with correct memory size. Usually pretty straightfoward to do. Congratulations, you just got a pretty usable (albeit slow) flash drive. Now for the real trick of the day, when you're armed with this knowledge: You can sorta scam the seller back. Pick an obviously fake flash drive, order it and once you receive it, test the capacity. If by some miracle, it checks out, great, you just scored a cheap flash drive. If not, ask for a refund. They usually let you keep the drive. Bam, free flash drive!
If you're dumb enough to click on anything that shouldnt be on a new usb drive, thats on YOU. As for production tools, i have yet to find one thats infected with malware.
5:20 Hard drives are much faster than this actually. Most desktop 7200RPM drives are close to 120-130MB/s (megabytes) and laptop ones closer to 90-100MB/s.
The part of this video which scared me the most was when he was hammering the drive and I was thinking “he’s going to scratch the crap out of that beautiful table”. 😮
I have bought about 13 items from Wish over the past year. 9 of them were scams,never got the items. I bought 2 laptops. They went to a different state, city, and zip code. By calling USPS I found out the item was 6 ounces. We all know a laptop is heavier than that. What items I actually got were good items. I went round and round with Wish to get my money back. I will never buy from them anymore until they can prove the sellers are true full and legit
I test any new drive with h2testw. Might take a while, especially for high capacity HDDs, but once it has run through you can be quite sure that no BS is going on
Totally agree but better still don't buy any kind of memory device from eBay, Amazon or China because all the ones I've bought and tested are fake. IE a 128G usb reports as being 128G but h2testw showed it crapped out before 1G. These days, I spend the extra cash and get mine from my memory, they've been so reliable I don't even bother testing them because they just work as advertised.
@@shadowdhaka Yeah Amazon was the first fake 128G I got that was fake. Worse still I didn't realise it was fake until my daughter complained about corrupted videos which led me to check the cards but by then I had already purchased 3 and all were fake. Had similar experiences with eBay too. These days I only buy from Mymemory which is a touch more expensive and a longer delivery time but so far I've had over 7 or 8 cards and at least 6 SSD drives and all have been genuine with no issues so far. In fairness I've had genuine drives off of Amazon and eBay but mostly they are fake. Up to you what you make of my experience.
@@trollobite1629 as i said are those products shipped and sold by Amazon? Remember there's still chinese third party sellers in amazon and may i ask You if these were brand name products or cheap budget options?
More than a year ago, I bought an 8 TB drive from Wish, very similarly looking. The first thing I noticed after having it attached to my PC was that it unfolded itself as 4 separate entities of 2 TB. There was no way I could initialise these 4 disks into 1. Then, I opened the case, which went without much hassle, as this case allowed for proper opening. To my surprise, it contained a PCB with a USB-hub, to which 4 sticks were attached. I could simply pry the sticks out of their USB-sockets. Since then, I use those sticks (short ones without plastic casing, but still quite usable) as USB-sticks. The 2 TB is actually working rather well, after I had initialised them properly. The problem that I had with the hub situation, as the manufacturer had intended it, was that it did not work that well, rendering the 8 TB almost useless. As separate sticks though, I'm quite happy with the package deal. So, yes, it was kind of a scam, but with a happy ending for me. Other customers that may not have been so resourceful as I was here, may have been disappointed though, and rightly so.
One time I bought a 1 TB external HDD from Wish. It actually did have 1 TB worth of storage space on it, but every time I tried to add files to it, the drive itself would lock up and it would somehow freeze my entire computer. The only way to get my computer to respond was to do to a hard reset. I ended up buying an 8 TB Easystore HDD instead.
I wish there was a way to shut down these scams. I was concerned you were going to hurt yourself opening it up. Actually a funny video. Keep uploading!
Interesting how you’re surprised that they figured out how to print the number 16 on a piece of cardboard, yet you remain unphased that they managed to somehow solder three micro SD cards to a USBc and package it into that little case and add enough code to make it say 15.2TB on the file explorer lol
and actually store 16T ... it does ... just because he is disappointed in how they got there is not relevant ... the drive is as advertised and works .... and windows never will show 16T as the drive size ... it will show the formatted size after the header file ... which is where the missing storage is located ... . and yes these drives are better than that 3k samsung he had on ebay ... at 26 bucks ... more affordable more usuable and more easily obtained ... just because this guy doesnt think micro sd is viable doesnt mean it isnt ... it just means he is prejudiced against novel uses of other tech nothing more ... . it does show his lack of knowledge on how small a solid state drive can actually be ... and yes it can be that small for 16T without a problem ...
@@kaboom-zf2bl No, the drive is not as advertised and does not store 16 TB. These fake SSDs are programmed to give false storage info. Those micro SD cards inside are probably about 8 or 16 GB. If you really do think these fakes are better than a real SSD, then go ahead and save all your files on one and see what happens. You will lose everything once you have used up a certain amount of storage.
As a photographer I carry a 2tb Sandisk ssd drive when I travel for work. It cost me $200 and the case to make it work was another hundred. But I bought it through a reputable dealer so I know it’s the real deal.
@@chalion8399 Cool. Thanks for the info. Being how I always have to pay for weight overage when traveling even the thought of saving a few ounces here and there makes me happy.
Reminds me of when I bought a 64GB USB drive when in fact it was just a 4GB drive with sneaky firmware that repeated writing of 4GB over and over again corrupting the data. I complained to eBay and got my money back and the seller disappeared ... but I bet they just made a new eBay account and continued to rip off innocent customers .. shame on them. How do they sleep at night?
This is what I call cannibal capitalism. Sadly, scams like this are on the rise. Spoofed chips, spoofed phone calls, spoofed mail. It’s so widespread and law enforcement can barely understand it, let alone investigate it (assuming it’s even illegal). Even if it’s illegal, the lack of enforcement means it’s quasi-legal. Perhaps “16Tb” is not the capacity, but the product logo. In that case it’s Buyer Beware.
There is so much wrong with products like these that I don't even know what the sad part about this is,: the scam itself, the fact those MicroSD cards are highly likely to be factory Q.C. rejects or the sheer amount of e-waste this is generating because most people in the world aren't tech savvy enough to detect products like these to be obvious fakes.
I bought a very well packaged (box, instructions, excellent copy of case) external hard drive “Samsung” which turned out to be a bare usb stick and a lump of aluminium to make up the weight. It had trouble storing one mp3. Ebay refunded in full.
I saw these on ebay and amazon recently with no reviews and new sellers (red flags a waving!) and added them to my watch/save list to "observe". Decided to follow the old mantra "If it sounds too good to be true, its probably trash", or something like that. I'll just sit back and let others fall for it while I save up for a REAL SSD. Then I saw this video weeks later! Glad I passed!
I just purchased a month ago a 13TB SSD external hard drive or mobile storage like what you show as the black one in your video from Walmart. Some of my files uploaded with no problem. Then when I went back to upload more files they show up at first, but when I disconnect the drive from my computer & reconnect the last uploaded files are no where to be found. There is no company name or logo on this thing. Why don't the files I uploaded show up? I am thinking this product is a ripoff and I should return it to Walmart. PJ
I bought one and checked it (mostly out of curiosity, because it was obviously a scam) . It's about 300GB but if I fill it more than that, everything on it gets permanently destroyed. I still use it as a 256Gb thumb drive. Did not open it, but after seeing you, I'm tempted.
A bummer you didn't take a close up shot of it. And next time, that shape can be so easily broken open with those clamp jaws. just turn it 90 degrees and press from the long sides. That brittle plastic will come out flying after few yanks of the handle.
I was in the US Navy and my ship pulled into port in western Turkey for three days. One of my buddies came back to the ship after going out on the town, excited as hell because he had talked a street vender into selling him a brand new VCR for $20 (US). This was early 1990s and a decent VCR ran from $150 to $400 (US). He unboxed it from a legitimate looking box with all the styrofoam formed packaging, plugged it in and found he couldn't insert a VCR cassette in the front door. It turned out the "VCR" was made from carved and painted 2 x 4 lumber. It was actually a testament to the vender's skill as a wood carver, but worthless as a VCR. *A deal that is so out of the realm of being plausible is usually a fake.*
I had people send me 1TB flash drives for me to give them files and I would test them with H2testw software and it will tell you what the actual capacity is.
Did you plug the SD card into the PC directly? What size did that come up with. The 16TB that shows up in Windows may have been coded on the circuit board.
Thank you, today I was going to buy one and it gave me a doubt, I looked on youtube for test information on these ssds and I got your video, you saved my money by not making the mistake of buying those false drives... thank you👍
Those nice and blank surfaces on both ends are in fact stickers, and if you had peeled one of them off, you would've found two small screws under it for opening up the enclosure. That way, you would still have had an intact USB-C to Micro SD adapter, at least... That was painful to watch. 😶
You must have the economy version as mine is solid plastic both ends. P.S. Having opened it up now I think I got ripped off on mine. There is no Micro SD adapter inside, it has a USB type A socket with part of a USB type A connector plugged into it, like the end bit. Inside the connector is a card but it is not Micro SD it is actually USB with the four standard USB A footprint gold pads on it. If you took the inside out of a USB type A plug off, that is what it looks like, never seen anything like it. Its 1TB.
It would likely be a dirt cheap and poor quality adapter with terrible speeds and questionable reliability that wouldn't be worth or trustworthy to use though.
@@Sevicify Yeah its just a crap scam item. Not really sure why I bought it, probably because I saw it for a few bucks when looking for something else, not that I need storage solutions, got lots of spare ssd's including M.2's and tons of thumbdrives.
They actually do have an adapter that will let you turn 10 SD cards into an SSD that is kind of slow. The cards all need to be formatted the same way, and they need to be putt in a certain configuration, but if you get that all right, it works.
@@eloskowy4954 Linus Tech Tips did a video on it "DIY SSD made of SD Cards!". It does use RAID 0 which does speed up sequential reads to around 220 MB/s, near 10x the 25 MB/s of a single high-speed SD card, but the random read & write speeds along with the latency are absolutely abysmal which makes it slow in real world usage.
I buy things like this on purpose, issue a chargeback on my card when shipped, then upgrade the free crap. For some reason Wish hasn't cancelled my account. Gotta give them points for creativity with SD card firmware hacks. I flash them back to what they're supposed to be and use 'em.
If it sounds too good to be true, then sadly, that is nearly always the case. At best it won't work as stated, at worse, it could even damage your computer, and trying to open it up like Jay did, it could probably damage your well being too!
I find entertainment value in this sort of video. It's fun to watch things get broken, and be exposed as a scam. You could have formatted the thing first though, just to expose the actual specs.
I had a fake USB flash drive from wish a few years back. It was absolutely convinced it was a 1tb in a time where that capacity would cost you several 100$. Any amount of formatting sadly didn't help 😩 It would only store about 1gb of data reliably, then anything after that would corrupt all existing content
idk if this is a joke but when you plug in the fake ssd it actually shows 16 tb cause it's fake and it can't be a typo it's cause the firmware is designed like so it keeps repeating a amount of data which corupts the files
I bought a 8tb one just for the hell of it and when I plugged it in it came up as 4 2tb drives. Opened it up it had 4 2tb caseless flash drives daisy chained together.
the controller chip is flashed with firmware to report 16 TB to windows. they usually put small 64 mb mSD cards in them. You can literally do a sector scan, and it will fail after the first couple dozen mbs of addresses, or take the mSD out of the enclosure and hook directly into your own reader.
Less than 3GB as it failed to store a file that size. If I had to guess I would say that its either 3x512MB or 3x64MB as those sizes have huge stockpiles from 10-20 years ago.
@@robertfowke2584 Best if you do this stunt while running on a LiveCD with the SATA/IDE lead of the master hard drive disconnected and the wi-fi router unplugged/Wthernet cable unplugged.
I'd say anyone dumb enough to buy something off wish gets exactly what they deserve. Newegg put a blatant scam of a 2tb thumb drive for ~$30 on shellshocker like a month ago though and it sold out. Hopefully they ended up at least refunding everyone.
@@original_M_A_K Yeah, but shellshocker is a curated selection of a couple dozen or so daily deals. You'd think there would be a manual review on that. It wasn't just some Chinese scammers slipping things onto the marketplace on fresh accounts, it was actively promoted and featured by Newegg.
Thanks bro I had just ordered it but it felt too good to be true went and checked your video and men the delivery guy was here gladly it was cash on delivery so I just counseled my delivery thanks bro
question! can you sue a company from china for false information on products or scam products you buy online? bec I see a lot of this item online I even bought one then throw it at the trush after just a few hours of using it. It didn't even last a day.
Jay if you're using chrome, you might want to install the Dark Reader extension, it turns the text white & the background black, so when watch on our phones, or on our monitors we're not blasted with a huge white video.
Yep. The guy I replaced in the IT department at work had purchased some similar 1TB drives-from Amazon Marketplace, I think-and they were utter garbage. No brand, model, or serial number. I couldn’t get the drives to format properly, so they were completely useless.
You can actually look up how much space they really have. The program is named H2testw It loads random files to the Fake SSD/mirco SD/Usb Stick And yeah it shows you how much it loaded Example: you want to let the program load 32GB on the SSD but fails on 3,9GB since the real size of the SSD is only 4GB
After a few days, I was able to understand how they are able to modify the information the drive shows about how much memory it can hold. They are so intelligent to make fraud products.
Mine is P/N SHL-R320. I think the limitation is the USB connection. I wonder is you came direct from the Mobo USB-C to USB-C you may get faster speeds? Got mine on Amazon Prime so I could return it but it was so cheap.
Since you didn't care about damaging/destroying it, an easier way to get it open would have been to use a Dremel cutting wheel and just slice off the sides and the end opposite from the connector. Transfer speeds - I don't put much faith in listed transfer speeds, even with verified, legitimate products. I have two internal SATA hard drives (mechanical) in my system and when transferring files between them, I NEVER get transfer speeds much faster than copying to an external USB 2.0 drive. Granted, I have an old system, but both the drives and SATA are supposed to be capable of faster transfer speeds than that. Scams - Many years ago, I bought an 8GB Ridata USB drive from Amazon. Turned out that it was only 4GB, even though it shows up as 8GB. I forget how much I paid for it, but I never ended up returning it.
You should check your motherboard transfer speed, no matter how high the drive/cable transfer speed is it won’t go higher then the motherboard transfer speed
I was just given a similar device as a promo material from one pharmaceutical company. It's very easy to open, just pry the flat end with a cutter and you can push out the other end with the usb-c port. But you're right, there's only just an sd card inside and when I tried to format the capacity is only 64 gigabytes. Just wondering how they can make it larger in the properties.
Thank you for exposing this scam. Unfortunately my friend bought this very same drive. The drive does not show up on his laptop, I tried helping him, searching the internet for answers and I found your solution. I'll tell him to throw it in the trash lol
I've learned my lesson back in the day with a 32GB micro SD card I got from eBay. You can write all you want, but the data will get corrupted past the actual space. Back then, 1GB was the highest.
The most expensive part in this was the Type-C port.
Which is ironic, as it's open sourcd
Actually I thought it was the high strength glue holding it all together 🤣
Actually, female type-c ports can be had for pretty low, between $0.20-$3, but if you mean that micro-SD (or it only support TF-card?) to USB-C, then yeah it is.
that or getting the boxes printed
The made up for it by probably using USB 2.0 through the USB-C port.
Fun fact. At 15 MB/s it would take around 12 days to fill up 15.2TB of space.
Damn
Assuming that it will not give any error (Which %99.9999999999 it gives error.
That's why you want to wait for NVMe PCIe 5.0 speed for large storage devices.
Fun fact 26$ has more speed than my 2.3 Mgb/s HDD
The 30TB I had took 13 days @ 25MB/s to do a full format. I got pissed off after 2 days and disconnected for refund.
looks like they are finally making drives even jay has a hard time getting into, the next one will be just a massive epoxy blob with a USB port on it.
you joke , but that is a product that is currently available. the idea is you cover the usb and blob with another plastic molding of a shape you decide. its a fixed size and never meant to be disassembled. Generally just for cheap custom flash drives.
Why do people never learn?
There is absolutely no problem in life that cannot be resolved with the judicious and plentiful application of high explosives.
@@spvillano preach, man. Preach.
@@tobiwonkanogy2975 if the USB port was built right could make for a good water proof USB thumb drive likely only good for transporting data in extreme environments maybe for wild life photographers or footage from the artic sometimes the footage is worth far more then the camera and durning an emegency ware allot of gear has to be abandoned a dozen normal off the shelf size USB thumb drives can hold allot of footage and be easy to carry compared to a laptop or even a portable hard drive and even if these devices are one time use devices because of reliability and the value of the data I am sure they would have some resale value on the open market for those who just want reliable and tough gear rather it to transport data while on a motor cycle or just going to a friends house with the latest movie on a cold winter day its not a bad idea
It took me ten seconds to click like, I was laughing so hard, I couldn't aim the mouse straight.
Considering you could not even retrieve a file from it, I imagine that unbranded SD card was one that did not pass even the lowest bin quality control at the factory. It has just enough integrity to register as an SD in windows and report a false capacity.
This is e-waste made from e-waste.
It ARE rejects. That's the only way they can make this a profitable scam. I've very rarely seen MicroSD scams actually work and even if they work, they are often an arbitrary amount like GB and incredibly slow. They just one upped this scam a bit, instead of selling broken GB MicroSD cards as > 1TB MicroSD cards (that was the OG scam), they're now selling them as SSD "SDUD" DRIVES. The shells in which they come are probably also Q.C. rejects and I wouldn't be surprised the conversion adapter is also reject. The only valuable thing in this - and probably the only thing passing the test - was the glue.
It's really sad, because a lot of people fall for scams like these thinking they scored a great deal, simply because they do not understand the technology at all and did little to no research other than price comparisons finding the most amount of storage for the least amount of investment.
Worst part is, the end user probably thinks it works as intended (granted the device actually works) if they are on a computer not supporting high bandwidth USB.
First thing i would have tried would have been a file system rebuilder to see the real capacity when hacked that way the cards will store what can fit then the rest just sorta dissappears as it is written to sectors that physically dont exist. Which is why i would have tried a txt file first to see if it actually could store something.
Yes this is typical and then a 16tb in this case boot sector is written to whatever good memory is there. So it has all of the file table that it needs the table just points to and writes to sectors that don't exist... My question that occurs to me now is that adaptor if he had not caveman opened the drive would the adaptor have worked with real sd cards...
That was a SOLID drive. Which means it is hard to get inside.
*SDUD drive
SDUD bro
@@WreeperXD most accurate product label ever
Solid Sdud drive. It's SOLID.
Solid Dud. Prank drive you're meant to buy these for those ignorant folk who love to brag about specs for stuff they don't even want or need. That way they will have this and be able to brag about 16 TB and never know the difference & they will throw it away when their data disappears in a few months & quit trying to do something they don't understand. I know the exact person to buy this for.
I learned my lesson years ago when I bought 512GB flash drive from Alliexpress. After exceeding 8GB all files were getting corrupted. Apparently the 512GB was overlapping the same 8GB of actual storage over and over again.
Never again I will buy any electronics from Wish or Aliexpress.
it depend i buy arduinos and esp8266/esp32 and they work fine. just don't be fooled by false /imaginary cheap things.
I have a few Xiaomi products and they're good
@@ilidioribeiro what products are they?
If it is to good to be true, it isn’t. Stick with identifiable name brands. Same with the stupid Facebook ads for 79$ laptops. Luckily PayPal reversed the charges for me after a while. Sheisters need their 🤬 lights punched out!
Company selling that garbage are: Alibaba, ebay and AlliExpress, be carefull, in china exist many out law factories, the best is no to bay electronic products from China, especially if there are unbranded watch out for smart phones.
The crazy thing to me is, I’d gladly pay $26 for a USB-C to 3x Micro-SD reader! That thing would be a godsend for my workflow, and I know people would pay good money for those if people would just be honest about what they’re selling!
I know what you mean - I actually paid for a Kingston Workflow dock for similar reasons :)
I imagine they would sell more trying to scam people like this than if they were to sell the adapters directly. These adapters would also be using extremely cheap and poor quality controllers with low transfer speeds and reliability that I would not trust using them at all for any purpose, so even if they were honest about selling an adapter it would still be poor cheap quality product you should avoid.
On another page somewhere, they are probably selling the adapters anyway... for $50, lol.
totally
At least it's almost on par, cost wise. Imagine if they were charging thousands then jumping ship after each batch go out. If it were the new Ebay you'd be screwed, with no more external payment providers being able to refund, you'd be up against the criminal behemoth itself. Scary stuff... 26 bucks it just a bit of fun, a perfect gift for frenemies.
I think you may want to invest in a Dremel with cutting disk…or a really good first aid kit…
$26
100% bargain.
I'll take as many as I can fit in this Toyota Hilux which has dual 180mm AA cannons on the back of it which I also bought from wish.
To be fair, they're not false advertising!
It says SDUD, that means Solid Dud! That's what it really is! 🤗
And you should never re-light a dud.
@@brentfisher902 JAJAJAJA! XD
Makes a great April Fool's day gift though...
@@Hudsonlee1954 Yeah it would, just to piss someone off.
"SolidDUD", My thoughts exactly. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can't believe you actually wrecked a 16TB SSD drive just to make this video (LOL).
He did not wreck a 16 TB SSD, he wrecked a 2 GB SSD.
@@Techlifeandmore Obviously you dont understand a joke comment
@@Techlifeandmore it's not a SSD its 3 crappy micro SD cards in a adapter
@@tonyl4590 too late he ordered 50 of them to sell at the car boot 1500 wacka moleis each
Yeah, 26 bucks down the toilet when no one would actually believe the 16TB claim anyway. How much is a bottle of snake oil nowadays?
7:10 I'm afraid that when you open it up like that, it may void the warrantee.
1 hour warranty - that covers from the moment the order is received to the moment it leaves the storage garage in some 3rd world $hithole country.
That's ok, the product warranty for things like this consists of "what's the problem? You got item".
@@bobamu lol
The Chinese products have no warranty anyway, so far, if you comply you will no get answer , Try if you want
Pretty standard stuff on cheap memory devices from China. If something seems cheap ($/GB wise) it's probably fake.
They do this on all sorts of storage devices. Flash drives and SD cards are the most common one. SSDs not so much.
What they do is they take the cheapeast lowest bin flash chips (usually few 10GB in real size) pair it with the cheapst and slowest flash controller and upload a modified firmware, so it reports higher capacity to the OS. It sorta works, but your data will either get overwritten or just ignored when you pass the real size.
A neat little trick you can do (only works with usb drives, sd cards don't work) is to use manufacturs production tools (available for most of these drives) and reinitialize them with correct memory size. Usually pretty straightfoward to do. Congratulations, you just got a pretty usable (albeit slow) flash drive.
Now for the real trick of the day, when you're armed with this knowledge: You can sorta scam the seller back. Pick an obviously fake flash drive, order it and once you receive it, test the capacity. If by some miracle, it checks out, great, you just scored a cheap flash drive. If not, ask for a refund. They usually let you keep the drive. Bam, free flash drive!
Some of them have malware and can absolutely brick your PC. Unless your PC is absolutely Dog water; don't act on that advice.
If you're dumb enough to click on anything that shouldnt be on a new usb drive, thats on YOU.
As for production tools, i have yet to find one thats infected with malware.
It’s a thrill to see a master craftsman at work. The precision with which you employed those sophisticated disassembly tools was a marvel to watch. 😂🤣
Well said. There really is a lot of crappy people on TH-cam.
Yes. It was like watching monkey try using tools
@@jameslovell8682 it's OK just click the dislike button. Hum... wait a minute...
It's called a "tear-down"! .....or is it "tear up"?
I wonder if he's got a sister that can help him Phil....🤣🤣🤣
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Hard drives are much faster than this actually. Most desktop 7200RPM drives are close to 120-130MB/s (megabytes) and laptop ones closer to 90-100MB/s.
I got a 5200 rpm HDD in my lappy
And the interface being usb type c, which the minimum spec for that is 5gbps, it should support speeds of up to ~110 MB/s.
Some desktop drives even go as high as 180-200MB/s
@@chazy123
Actually, the minimum spec for USB-C is 12 Mbit/s (since i can work in USB 2.0/1.1 mode).
@@chazy123M2 SSD extern ca. 128 MB/s an USB 3.0 Type A
The part of this video which scared me the most was when he was hammering the drive and I was thinking “he’s going to scratch the crap out of that beautiful table”. 😮
I have bought about 13 items from Wish over the past year. 9 of them were scams,never got the items. I bought 2 laptops. They went to a different state, city, and zip code.
By calling USPS I found out the item was 6 ounces. We all know a laptop is heavier than that. What items I actually got were good items. I went round and round with Wish to get my money back. I will never buy from them anymore until they can prove the sellers are true full and legit
buying from wish
leaves you wishing
you hadn't gotten
ripped off
I test any new drive with h2testw. Might take a while, especially for high capacity HDDs, but once it has run through you can be quite sure that no BS is going on
Totally agree but better still don't buy any kind of memory device from eBay, Amazon or China because all the ones I've bought and tested are fake. IE a 128G usb reports as being 128G but h2testw showed it crapped out before 1G. These days, I spend the extra cash and get mine from my memory, they've been so reliable I don't even bother testing them because they just work as advertised.
@@trollobite1629 any issues with Amazon? Arent they shipping from manufacturers?
@@shadowdhaka Yeah Amazon was the first fake 128G I got that was fake. Worse still I didn't realise it was fake until my daughter complained about corrupted videos which led me to check the cards but by then I had already purchased 3 and all were fake. Had similar experiences with eBay too. These days I only buy from Mymemory which is a touch more expensive and a longer delivery time but so far I've had over 7 or 8 cards and at least 6 SSD drives and all have been genuine with no issues so far. In fairness I've had genuine drives off of Amazon and eBay but mostly they are fake. Up to you what you make of my experience.
@@trollobite1629 as i said are those products shipped and sold by Amazon? Remember there's still chinese third party sellers in amazon and may i ask You if these were brand name products or cheap budget options?
More than a year ago, I bought an 8 TB drive from Wish, very similarly looking. The first thing I noticed after having it attached to my PC was that it unfolded itself as 4 separate entities of 2 TB. There was no way I could initialise these 4 disks into 1.
Then, I opened the case, which went without much hassle, as this case allowed for proper opening. To my surprise, it contained a PCB with a USB-hub, to which 4 sticks were attached. I could simply pry the sticks out of their USB-sockets.
Since then, I use those sticks (short ones without plastic casing, but still quite usable) as USB-sticks. The 2 TB is actually working rather well, after I had initialised them properly. The problem that I had with the hub situation, as the manufacturer had intended it, was that it did not work that well, rendering the 8 TB almost useless. As separate sticks though, I'm quite happy with the package deal.
So, yes, it was kind of a scam, but with a happy ending for me. Other customers that may not have been so resourceful as I was here, may have been disappointed though, and rightly so.
"So, yes, it was kind of a scam". Not kind of a scam. It's was a scam, period. It was sold was an 8 TB SSD which it wasn't.
@@savedfaves It was 8TB of storage though, so not entirely a scam.
One time I bought a 1 TB external HDD from Wish. It actually did have 1 TB worth of storage space on it, but every time I tried to add files to it, the drive itself would lock up and it would somehow freeze my entire computer. The only way to get my computer to respond was to do to a hard reset. I ended up buying an 8 TB Easystore HDD instead.
You sure? It’s really easy to modify a drive so it displays a false amount of storage.
@@noobwithapistol it’s the controller chip, which contains firmware which can easily be reprogrammed in a misleading way
I wish there was a way to shut down these scams.
I was concerned you were going to hurt yourself opening it up.
Actually a funny video.
Keep uploading!
Interesting how you’re surprised that they figured out how to print the number 16 on a piece of cardboard, yet you remain unphased that they managed to somehow solder three micro SD cards to a USBc and package it into that little case and add enough code to make it say 15.2TB on the file explorer lol
and actually store 16T ... it does ... just because he is disappointed in how they got there is not relevant ... the drive is as advertised and works .... and windows never will show 16T as the drive size ... it will show the formatted size after the header file ... which is where the missing storage is located ...
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and yes these drives are better than that 3k samsung he had on ebay ... at 26 bucks ... more affordable more usuable and more easily obtained ... just because this guy doesnt think micro sd is viable doesnt mean it isnt ... it just means he is prejudiced against novel uses of other tech nothing more ...
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it does show his lack of knowledge on how small a solid state drive can actually be ... and yes it can be that small for 16T without a problem ...
@@kaboom-zf2bl Is this a joke comment? Please be a joke comment.
@@kaboom-zf2bl No, the drive is not as advertised and does not store 16 TB. These fake SSDs are programmed to give false storage info.
Those micro SD cards inside are probably about 8 or 16 GB.
If you really do think these fakes are better than a real SSD, then go ahead and save all your files on one and see what happens. You will lose everything once you have used up a certain amount of storage.
@@kaboom-zf2bl This man thinks he can buy 16 tb of silicon for two pizza's lmfao, bruh...
I jus kept saying but how?
With the cheap price and misspelling, I wasn't expecting for it to not even be detected by a PC.
“ Need to get the hammer out” proceeds to get the 1840s Amish woodworking clamp out. Lol love it bruh
People in 2122 are going to look at this and wonder how we had this technology so long ago
Thanks for testing it. I always report these ads on Facebook, now I can attach your video in a comment there. 🤘🏼
As a photographer I carry a 2tb Sandisk ssd drive when I travel for work.
It cost me $200 and the case to make it work was another hundred.
But I bought it through a reputable dealer so I know it’s the real deal.
Same for me, but went with a Samsung M.2 V-NAND SSD. Very happy with that purchase.
@@chalion8399
They make cases for M.2 drives that allow them to be used for storage outside the computer?
@@dontparticipate240 yes they do. Look up " M.2 SATA and NVMe SSD Enclosure" Make sure it states M.2 compatibility.
@@chalion8399
Cool.
Thanks for the info.
Being how I always have to pay for weight overage when traveling even the thought of saving a few ounces here and there makes me happy.
I’d be concerned that that might have been an extra chip on that SSD that could have allowed in a back door.
Reminds me of when I bought a 64GB USB drive when in fact it was just a 4GB drive with sneaky firmware that repeated writing of 4GB over and over again corrupting the data. I complained to eBay and got my money back and the seller disappeared ... but I bet they just made a new eBay account and continued to rip off innocent customers .. shame on them. How do they sleep at night?
they don't because they spend the nights getting money from innocent little customers
they sleep on beds of money from scammed people
This is what I call cannibal capitalism.
Sadly, scams like this are on the rise. Spoofed chips, spoofed phone calls, spoofed mail. It’s so widespread and law enforcement can barely understand it, let alone investigate it (assuming it’s even illegal). Even if it’s illegal, the lack of enforcement means it’s quasi-legal.
Perhaps “16Tb” is not the capacity, but the product logo. In that case it’s Buyer Beware.
I guess they sleep like babies cos the have no morals & just don't care,oh & the fact they probably made a lot of money.Sad bastards🤬🤬🤬
The big question is, how did it confuse your computer to read all those Mbs?
I was beginning to think the entire interior would be filled with epoxy, but it seems that was too expensive for them.
The epoxy would be worth more than the other contents.
They are also on Amazon, I got one just to test it.
Read/Write Speed is very very Slow.
The 'Drives' (2x4) show on the PC as " 8 TB (2x 4tb)
There is so much wrong with products like these that I don't even know what the sad part about this is,: the scam itself, the fact those MicroSD cards are highly likely to be factory Q.C. rejects or the sheer amount of e-waste this is generating because most people in the world aren't tech savvy enough to detect products like these to be obvious fakes.
Watching Jay open that drive was like an episode of Forged In Fire where a smith is trying to peel the can off of a Canister Damascus billet.
Looks exactly the same as my Samsung ssd, down to the cable.
That is the whole point.
Using a knife as a hammer is inadvisable.
I bought a very well packaged (box, instructions, excellent copy of case) external hard drive “Samsung” which turned out to be a bare usb stick and a lump of aluminium to make up the weight. It had trouble storing one mp3. Ebay refunded in full.
I saw these on ebay and amazon recently with no reviews and new sellers (red flags a waving!) and added them to my watch/save list to "observe". Decided to follow the old mantra "If it sounds too good to be true, its probably trash", or something like that. I'll just sit back and let others fall for it while I save up for a REAL SSD. Then I saw this video weeks later! Glad I passed!
Would’ve been great to see a top down view of you opening the ssd. To see the adapter and add cards up close
I usually don't comment in TH-cam, but the way you opened the enclosure makes me black list you for life my friend
Wait, enclosure? I thought those things have nothing in them, just a shell that you put your own hard drive into.
I just purchased a month ago a 13TB SSD external hard drive or mobile storage like what you show as the black one in your video from Walmart. Some of my files uploaded with no problem. Then when I went back to upload more files they show up at first, but when I disconnect the drive from my computer & reconnect the last uploaded files are no where to be found. There is no company name or logo on this thing. Why don't the files I uploaded show up? I am thinking this product is a ripoff and I should return it to Walmart. PJ
I bought one and checked it (mostly out of curiosity, because it was obviously a scam) . It's about 300GB but if I fill it more than that, everything on it gets permanently destroyed. I still use it as a 256Gb thumb drive. Did not open it, but after seeing you, I'm tempted.
You knew it was a scam yet you handed your money over out of curiosity?
Thank you for making this. I found some cheap ones but thought I'd see what is said on youtube. You saved me some cash mate so BIG THX
A bummer you didn't take a close up shot of it. And next time, that shape can be so easily broken open with those clamp jaws. just turn it 90 degrees and press from the long sides. That brittle plastic will come out flying after few yanks of the handle.
I was in the US Navy and my ship pulled into port in western Turkey for three days. One of my buddies came back to the ship after going out on the town, excited as hell because he had talked a street vender into selling him a brand new VCR for $20 (US). This was early 1990s and a decent VCR ran from $150 to $400 (US). He unboxed it from a legitimate looking box with all the styrofoam formed packaging, plugged it in and found he couldn't insert a VCR cassette in the front door. It turned out the "VCR" was made from carved and painted 2 x 4 lumber. It was actually a testament to the vender's skill as a wood carver, but worthless as a VCR.
*A deal that is so out of the realm of being plausible is usually a fake.*
An offer that sounds like it is too good to be true usually is.
I had people send me 1TB flash drives for me to give them files and I would test them with H2testw software and it will tell you what the actual capacity is.
Did you plug the SD card into the PC directly? What size did that come up with. The 16TB that shows up in Windows may have been coded on the circuit board.
Honestly If I was the kind of man to push this kind of scam, why stop at taking their money when you could load it with malware and ruin their life.
Or put in a high voltage USB killer circuit...
Thank you, today I was going to buy one and it gave me a doubt, I looked on youtube for test information on these ssds and I got your video, you saved my money by not making the mistake of buying those false drives... thank you👍
Those nice and blank surfaces on both ends are in fact stickers, and if you had peeled one of them off, you would've found two small screws under it for opening up the enclosure.
That way, you would still have had an intact USB-C to Micro SD adapter, at least...
That was painful to watch. 😶
You must have the economy version as mine is solid plastic both ends.
P.S. Having opened it up now I think I got ripped off on mine. There is no Micro SD adapter inside, it has a USB type A socket with part of a USB type A connector plugged into it, like the end bit. Inside the connector is a card but it is not Micro SD it is actually USB with the four standard USB A footprint gold pads on it. If you took the inside out of a USB type A plug off, that is what it looks like, never seen anything like it. Its 1TB.
It would likely be a dirt cheap and poor quality adapter with terrible speeds and questionable reliability that wouldn't be worth or trustworthy to use though.
@@Sevicify Yeah its just a crap scam item. Not really sure why I bought it, probably because I saw it for a few bucks when looking for something else, not that I need storage solutions, got lots of spare ssd's including M.2's and tons of thumbdrives.
The 16TB drives in reality are only 64gb. That's all they can hold. Everything you put on their after that will be deleted when you disconnect it.
They actually do have an adapter that will let you turn 10 SD cards into an SSD that is kind of slow. The cards all need to be formatted the same way, and they need to be putt in a certain configuration, but if you get that all right, it works.
Shouldn't it be fast? RAID should be working on this
@@eloskowy4954 Linus Tech Tips did a video on it "DIY SSD made of SD Cards!". It does use RAID 0 which does speed up sequential reads to around 220 MB/s, near 10x the 25 MB/s of a single high-speed SD card, but the random read & write speeds along with the latency are absolutely abysmal which makes it slow in real world usage.
Using /dev/null as storage would be cheaper and lot more straight forward
There are a lot of these floating around the internet
I buy things like this on purpose, issue a chargeback on my card when shipped, then upgrade the free crap. For some reason Wish hasn't cancelled my account.
Gotta give them points for creativity with SD card firmware hacks. I flash them back to what they're supposed to be and use 'em.
Any pointers to software for reflashing SD cards to the correct size?
@@johnruschmeyer5769 idk but on windows you can reformat them
Thanks, funny and well done. More of these consumers protections videos should help consumers.
If it sounds too good to be true, then sadly, that is nearly always the case. At best it won't work as stated, at worse, it could even damage your computer, and trying to open it up like Jay did, it could probably damage your well being too!
I find entertainment value in this sort of video. It's fun to watch things get broken, and be exposed as a scam. You could have formatted the thing first though, just to expose the actual specs.
I had a fake USB flash drive from wish a few years back. It was absolutely convinced it was a 1tb in a time where that capacity would cost you several 100$. Any amount of formatting sadly didn't help 😩
It would only store about 1gb of data reliably, then anything after that would corrupt all existing content
Lmao your head movement when you said they could spell solid. I’m now a new subscriber.
It was probably just a typo, they meant a 16 GB (Gigabyte) SSD 😄 They were just off by a factor of 1024.
idk if this is a joke but when you plug in the fake ssd it actually shows 16 tb cause it's fake and it can't be a typo
it's cause the firmware is designed like so it keeps repeating a amount of data which corupts the files
It's got 16TB, just all of it is write only memory.
I bought a 8tb one just for the hell of it and when I plugged it in it came up as 4 2tb drives. Opened it up it had 4 2tb caseless flash drives daisy chained together.
that's totally 16tb😐
The way you opened that thing was truly terrifying.
I was sort of hoping you were going to throw the micro SD into an adapter and run some tests on it to try and work out what it REALLY was.
No, he just likes to complain and destroy.
the controller chip is flashed with firmware to report 16 TB to windows.
they usually put small 64 mb mSD cards in them.
You can literally do a sector scan, and it will fail after the first couple dozen mbs of addresses,
or take the mSD out of the enclosure and hook directly into your own reader.
Did I miss the part where he said how much storage was really in there?
He didnt bother to check
Less than 3GB as it failed to store a file that size.
If I had to guess I would say that its either 3x512MB or 3x64MB as those sizes have huge stockpiles from 10-20 years ago.
@@PalladinPoker Oof, that's just plain shitty to try to sell those as anywhere near 16tb.
Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which fills up first.
Insult to injury for buyers: I've heard of scam drives like this one coming preloaded with malware.
Alway run on Linux software first and reflash before using on windows, much safer way if you dont trust what you have
@@robertfowke2584 Best if you do this stunt while running on a LiveCD with the SATA/IDE lead of the master hard drive disconnected and the wi-fi router unplugged/Wthernet cable unplugged.
Entertaining. I always wondered about this fake 16TB SSD from Amazon. Thanks for doing this.
I'd say anyone dumb enough to buy something off wish gets exactly what they deserve. Newegg put a blatant scam of a 2tb thumb drive for ~$30 on shellshocker like a month ago though and it sold out. Hopefully they ended up at least refunding everyone.
they sell these everywhere, ebay, amazon etc...
@@original_M_A_K Yeah, but shellshocker is a curated selection of a couple dozen or so daily deals. You'd think there would be a manual review on that. It wasn't just some Chinese scammers slipping things onto the marketplace on fresh accounts, it was actively promoted and featured by Newegg.
I had to pause this video to leave this comment. I almost died from laughter when he said "SDUD state 😂 3:56 LOL
The craftsmanship on that paperweight is impressive
These are all over Amazon now.
buying storage from wish is like walking into a active minefield
Thanks bro I had just ordered it but it felt too good to be true went and checked your video and men the delivery guy was here gladly it was cash on delivery so I just counseled my delivery thanks bro
question! can you sue a company from china for false information on products or scam products you buy online? bec I see a lot of this item online I even bought one then throw it at the trush after just a few hours of using it. It didn't even last a day.
The humour is strong with this one🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. I love the dry humour
Jay if you're using chrome, you might want to install the Dark Reader extension, it turns the text white & the background black, so when watch on our phones, or on our monitors we're not blasted with a huge white video.
also it saves our phones battery life, & the life of our displays (phone or monitor) ... not to mention our eyes.
Thanks - I knew enough to knew it was bullshit, but my squeaky cheep ass kept hoping. Now I finally give up on cheap storage.
Yep. The guy I replaced in the IT department at work had purchased some similar 1TB drives-from Amazon Marketplace, I think-and they were utter garbage. No brand, model, or serial number. I couldn’t get the drives to format properly, so they were completely useless.
do you reckon that was why he needed to be replaced ?
@@laszlozoltan5021 Lol. If he hadn’t retired, maybe.
Hammers at a screwdriver with an open bladed knife.
Ah well, at least you're good with tech
I guess making a wish nowadays just doesn't come true
Maybe try a heat gun and some more precise tools next time, haha. Stil la fun vid tho.
Crazy ... another thumbnail youtuber that bought a drive from wish. I am on the edge of my chair ...
You can actually look up how much space they really have.
The program is named H2testw
It loads random files to the Fake SSD/mirco SD/Usb Stick
And yeah it shows you how much it loaded
Example: you want to let the program load 32GB on the SSD but fails on 3,9GB since the real size of the SSD is only 4GB
After a few days, I was able to understand how they are able to modify the information the drive shows about how much memory it can hold. They are so intelligent to make fraud products.
"Mom can we get a hammer?"
"We have a hammer at home"
_Hammer at home_ 7:17
I was just looking to buy one of the 16TB on aliexpress, same as wish. I KNEW it had to be a scam!! THANKS for the video....
So what size was it actually and how did it show on windows it was 16tb.
Lol, this is not a Solid State Drive, but it is "Solid" something else, really Solid, lolllll
Mine is P/N SHL-R320. I think the limitation is the USB connection. I wonder is you came direct from the Mobo USB-C to USB-C you may get faster speeds? Got mine on Amazon Prime so I could return it but it was so cheap.
Why did it register 16 tb? How'd they get it to do that?
SDUD short for "ITS A DUD"😂
Since you didn't care about damaging/destroying it, an easier way to get it open would have been to use a Dremel cutting wheel and just slice off the sides and the end opposite from the connector.
Transfer speeds - I don't put much faith in listed transfer speeds, even with verified, legitimate products. I have two internal SATA hard drives (mechanical) in my system and when transferring files between them, I NEVER get transfer speeds much faster than copying to an external USB 2.0 drive. Granted, I have an old system, but both the drives and SATA are supposed to be capable of faster transfer speeds than that.
Scams - Many years ago, I bought an 8GB Ridata USB drive from Amazon. Turned out that it was only 4GB, even though it shows up as 8GB. I forget how much I paid for it, but I never ended up returning it.
You should check your motherboard transfer speed, no matter how high the drive/cable transfer speed is it won’t go higher then the motherboard transfer speed
I was just given a similar device as a promo material from one pharmaceutical company. It's very easy to open, just pry the flat end with a cutter and you can push out the other end with the usb-c port. But you're right, there's only just an sd card inside and when I tried to format the capacity is only 64 gigabytes. Just wondering how they can make it larger in the properties.
Hexadecimal sector editor to change the free space summary that is reported.
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A HDD is way faster, at least at the beginning (120 MB/s instead of MBit/s).
Thank you for exposing this scam. Unfortunately my friend bought this very same drive. The drive does not show up on his laptop, I tried helping him, searching the internet for answers and I found your solution. I'll tell him to throw it in the trash lol
I've learned my lesson back in the day with a 32GB micro SD card I got from eBay. You can write all you want, but the data will get corrupted past the actual space. Back then, 1GB was the highest.