Fake SSD Scams (Worse Than I Thought) - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk

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Fake SSD and flash drive scams are spewed all over the Internet, so I investigated one! And it's worse than I thought. Part 2 linked below…

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  • 🚨UPDATE: Part 2 is here! https://youtu.be/UjVvlaCGGhA - sorry it took a while… I'll explain everything. Enjoy the new episode! I will do a PART 2 so subscribe and stay tuned! 🔔 More developments happened since I finished this episode.
  • Hey, thanks for the shoutout! Yeah, the first time I dismantled one of these, I destroyed it beyond recognition! I love your anti-scam content best of all. I'm going to link here from my video, because some people wanted to see some in-depth capacity/bandwidth testing that I didn't bother with in the recent video.
  • I bought one of the “128gb” flash drives from Amazon just for fun and checked it out on a test bed. It was a whopping 512mb! We have a fiber laser so I corrected the capacity and sent it back to Amazon :)
  • @tortysoft
    Here's another scam I found - this time on Amazon. A low priced SSD drive turned out to be just the carrier ! The advert said it had 8TB storage, but the box when it arrived said it was just a container - and it was indeed an empty case.
  • @crossjay
    I saw a lot of this kind of thing on eBay recently and knew it had to be fake, but wondered how it all worked. You filled in the gap, thank you!
  • I bought one of these on Amazon last week. It was a 2TB model that was priced only a little less than a legit drive. It was the same 64GB chip inside. FYI the drive looked identical to yours in this video, but was a different brand.
  • These are even on Amazon, they're everywhere now. I've also seen these as pendrives soldered to USB B/C ports.
  • @rolfs2165
    1:46 What immediately hit my eye about that selection: the smallest size is 500 Go - gigaoctet. Why is an (allegedly) English company using the French term for gigabyte, only to then move on with (English) terabyte?
  • @raine_tay
    Unfortunately, I got scammed by this fake things (but an USB drive, not an SSD drive), and it was apparently 128 gigs, until I used the drive for Android ROM backups, until all the recovery logs hangs at around 8,000 megs made me realise that the damn drive is just 8 gigs, realised this too late for a refund sadly :(
  • I just bought one of these with the same issue, why don’t we go after the people manufacturing and selling stuff like this? They need to be taught a lesson.
  • Man, I live for your scam busting videos! Seriously the best on YT and love your sense of humour Ken! Keep it up!
  • I really enjoy your videos. Love the cheeky comedy. Keep them coming!
  • @leepshin
    I nearly choked on my Sunday morning coffee when you compared your skills to Linus. 🤣😂🙂 Remember back in the day (nearly 20 years ago) when it started with SD cards? I was extremely lucky to get an 8Gb card for a really cheap price and confirmed it with the H2testw program as a genuine 8Gb. After that the majority of the cards I got had immediate refunds given when I said they were fake. Even Amazon gave me immediate refunds. So always use the H2testw on new media to confirm the storage capacity.
  • I feel glad that you're spreading awareness of these fake hard drives. I knew these were too good to be true and luckily I bought one dirt cheap at a flea market so it didn't hurt me when I found out for myself the thing is a faulty scam. These things are a waste of plastic, metal, and electronic components. They shouldn't even be made and sold in the first place
  • My grandpa got two of these (the only difference being that they were marked as 4TB) KNOWING it was a scam, only going through with buying it because it claimed to be on sale. I recently opened one of them up to find a (surprisingly fully functional) 64GB Micro SD card.
  • Your sarcasm is coming to life and dripping off my phone screen onto my hand! Weird things have been showing up on my hand now, and I wonder if that means your videos are 'growing on me'! 🤭 I've been enjoying your shows, and have oft wondered "That shit can't work!" Thanks for validating my presumptions! 👍