Samsung 1TB SSD for $38USD?

[Jwalling]

Seems too good to be true, but:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292903027973?

I bought one. We'll see what happens.

[JackJones]

Items for sale: 1

Feedback for the last 12 months: 4 positive

I'm afraid it's a scam 

[DC1MC]

What is to happen ? You will probably tell us how easy or difficult was to recover your monies.

 Good luck,
 DC1MC

[tsman]

Probably a hacked account. As JackJones points out, there is barely any items sold in the last 12 months. eBay even suggests another 1TB Samsung SSD auction with similarly suspicious account.

[JackJones]

What is to happen ? You will probably tell us how easy or difficult was to recover your monies.

 Good luck,
 DC1MC

Similar thing happened to me once. The seller actually sent something to my neighbourhood, they just apparently didn't put in my full address, just the zip code. So the tracking looked like it almost arrived. It never of course made it to me, but I suppose they could've stalled past the dispute date by saying it's almost there. It took paypal 2 months to resolve the case, thankfully they understood that the seller never sent anything of value to me.

99% you get your money back, but there is always the chance that maybe not. And having your money tied up for 2 months is no fun.

[bitseeker]

Yeah, it does look like a hacked inactive account. However, it's unusual that there's only one item for sale. Usually, dormant accounts get pumped with thousands of products. Maybe it's a new scammer testing it out.

[TheSteve]

So clearly a scam - look at the shipping info. It was obviously done by someone outside of the country.

[Mr. Scram]

I can see more than one for sale. Popular item, price too good to be true and previously dormant account. All the hallmarks of a scammer.

[ataradov]

Here is investigation of fake SD Cards:


So at best you will get a fake SSD with controller instructed to lie about its capacity.

[wraper]

Looks like hacked account. And 17 idiots already bought it  .

[bitseeker]

Yep, was fake and removed.

[coromonadalix]

yep same thing for an 2tb usb key a friend bought, we argued a lot when i said to him : an 2tb for 12$  its impossible,  you've been had loll.

It was a real 4gb key  loll

[Brumby]

I just don't trust any stated storage for SD cards or USB keys these days.

Every single one gets checked for physical capacity before being pressed into service.  I use H2testw and let it run in the background.

I have found 2 mislabelled 32GB micro SD cards I purchased from a B&M computer store that turned out to be 8GB.  Took them back with a print out of the results.

[coromonadalix]

Web source, supposed to be faster than  hw2test    it will copy the file into a multiple incremented name file,  it will fill the usb key,  when it stops   check the quantity of created files to know the real size

To create an empty file, having a defined size under Windows

    Click on Start > cmd > Press CTRL + Shift + Enter to open it as Administrator
    Enter the following command
    fsutil file createnew [name_of_file.extension][size_in_bytes]

EX: fsutil file createnew C:\test.txt 52428800  (for an 50 megs file size)

Copy the text.txt  (50mb)  file on the drive you want to test

Run a administrative cmd prompt windows, not powershell          "H:" is the usb key to test

FOR /L %A IN (1 1 10000) DO (COPY H:\test.txt H:\%A.txt) 

It will be a lengthty process, around 6 secs each time to create / copy increment the file ..... 50mb each

test.txt
test1.txt
text2.txt

[PlainName]

It's no good copying the same file contents, regardless of filename. And unique filenames mean nothing since they're all stored in the same place so don't test storage size. The sensible way to do it is to have unique bit patterns over specific locations that you can a) verify exists, and b) won't exist anywhere else on the drive.

[wraper]

Web source, supposed to be faster than  hw2test    it will copy the file into a multiple incremented name file,  it will fill the usb key,  when it stops   check the quantity of created files to know the real size
...

It's useless and it won't stop creating files. It will write data just fine... over older data. The thing is can written more data than actual size of files but you won't be able to read properly anything other than latest files written. However as all of those files created are empty anyway, quite likely you'll even properly read all of them back regardless.

[MrElectric]

A few years ago, there was someone that was selling used hard drives. He used photos of new hard disks, and the starting bid looked reasonable for an x GB used drive. However, in the title, it said "x MB used hard disk". So, he was selling 500 MB harddisks when you could not buy a new hard disk smaller than 500 GB.

Many people bought these, and gave positive comments, saying "it was my own fault, I should have seen that it said MB, not GB".

I say that was a scam as well.

I remember I even saw a 500 MB hard disk sold, where the description said "this disk is faulty and does not work". I guess you're an idiot if you don't read the description, but if you don't mean to trick people into buying, there's no way anyone would willingly buy a 10+ year old failed disk (so there's no use trying to sell it if you don't mean to fool someone). People say that's not a scam, because the description says that it's a failed disk. But the photo of a brand new disk can fool many people...

[wraper]

I remember I even saw a 500 MB hard disk sold, where the description said "this disk is faulty and does not work". I guess you're an idiot if you don't read the description, but if you don't mean to trick people into buying, there's no way anyone would willingly buy a 10+ year old failed disk (so there's no use trying to sell it if you don't mean to fool someone). People say that's not a scam, because the description says that it's a failed disk. But the photo of a brand new disk can fool many people...

Why not. Say you have a faulty HDD you need to get data from. It's completely reasonable to buy another faulty HDD for spare parts. Or you may need it for some project like HDD clock.

[MrElectric]

I remember I even saw a 500 MB hard disk sold, where the description said "this disk is faulty and does not work". I guess you're an idiot if you don't read the description, but if you don't mean to trick people into buying, there's no way anyone would willingly buy a 10+ year old failed disk (so there's no use trying to sell it if you don't mean to fool someone). People say that's not a scam, because the description says that it's a failed disk. But the photo of a brand new disk can fool many people...

Why not. Say you have a faulty HDD you need to get data from. It's completely reasonable to buy another faulty HDD for spare parts. Or you may need it for some project like HDD clock.

That's true! :-)

[CJay]

If you run Windows then Bitlocker is quite a handy test for disk capacity, kick off the encryption on the drive you want to test, if the capacity isn't as advertised it will fail when it encounters the true capacity limit or faulty sections of the device

[Gabri74]

f3 - Fight Flash Fraud

https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3