Scammers are selling microSD cards with only gigabytes of capacity as portable SSDs with several terabytes of storage, an investigation by Review Geek has revealed.
Amazon.com shoppers should be wary of fake but positively-reviewed portable hard disk drives and solid-state drives selling on its marketplace.recently found several 16TB portable HDDs and SSDs from unfamiliar brands on Amazon selling for around $100 or less.
Aside from the strange brands, the pictures for the drives were very similar, with a seemingly generic portable drive and photoshopped text edited on top of it. Despite Windows detecting the drive as a 16TB unit, the actual capacity was only 64GB, and the drive could only write data at USB 2.0-like speeds.
Henderson determined this by looking at the reviews of the fake drives, many of which seemed to be legitimate experiences of other products — like a steering wheel cover. However, Henderson said the products had, in fact, not been removed. The products he had pointed out remained listed on Amazon’s marketplace.on Amazon.com and also found several suspicious models from unknown brands with claimed capacities of 7TB, 11TB, and 16TB.
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