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Lost $60 on a fake SSD from an online flash sale last month
I thought I was being smart, you know, jumping on a deal for a 2TB external SSD (which is normally way more). It was some brand I never heard of called 'DataSync Pro' or something like that. When it arrived, the packaging looked legit but the actual drive only had 128GB of real storage. I found out after I tried to copy a big video project over and it just started corrupting files. So I wasted $60 and also lost about 4 hours of work because I didn't back up properly first. Has anyone else fallen for those crazy cheap storage deals on sketchy sites?
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nora_dixon17d ago
Wait, you didn't run H2testw on it before you put your video project on there? I get that the packaging looked legit but isn't that the whole point of these scams, to make the fake stuff look real? How did you figure out it was only 128GB after the files started corrupting - was it just trial and error or did something actually tip you off?
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holly_sanchez751mo ago
Oof, that's the worst kind of scam. Those fake drives are everywhere now, not just on weird sites but even in third-party listings on big marketplaces. They mess with the firmware to lie about the capacity, so your computer gets tricked until you try to actually fill it up. Always worth checking a new drive with a free tool like H2testw before you trust it with anything important. Sorry about your lost work and cash, that's a brutal double hit.
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