I bought FAKE Samsung SSDs from AliExpress...Don't buy these! (990 Pro 1TB & 1080 Pro 4TB)

Fairly short video from me this week but there is the usual rambly bits in this one so if you need to use Timestamps to skip through, they are integrated into the video.
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Greetings and welcome to another installment in the iWish series, a series in which I purchase various questionable products to see if they are any good...most of the time they are not but I buy this stuff so you don't have to!
And I am back with another look at a scam with storage devices.
Not another USB Drive or anything...an actual M.2 SSD that LOOKS suspiciously like a Samsung SSD.
They are even called the same (Except for the 1080 Pro which is nonsense).
Of course the price is the red flag here but what DO you get for the money?
The answer is not a whole lot.
You all know the drill here, stick with reputable companies and manufacturers and if it's too good to be true then it likely is. Please DO NOT BUY these drives. Make sure they are 100% Samsung and the price will reflect that.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00
What I Purchased, Pricing & Red Flags: 1:31
Unboxing both drives: 3:21
The 1TB 990 Pro Drive: 4:31
The 4TB 1080 Pro Drive: 5:36
Connecting the Drives to a PC and Issues: 6:52
Testing the 1TB 990 Pro & Results: 8:41
Testing the 4TB 1080 Pro & Results: 10:25
Conclusion of the Investigation: 11:23
Final Thoughts & Outro: 12:33
Be good people!
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#Scam #Samsung #AliExpress

[@SMOOREZ]

*I know this scam may be obvious to some folks but you can never be too careful when it comes to these things. Please do not buy these fake drives and stick with reputable companies for your storage* (Also I do apologize I had to have text in the videos but sellers steal my footage to advertise these scam drives) Hey everyone, welcome back to another installment in my iWish series! I kept seeing these on AliExpress and thought "How bad could these be". Plus I wanted to add to my list of "Fake Drives" I've looked at on the channel. I know I said I wouldn't do another one but these just peaked my interest. If you've come across this video by finding these on AliExpress, I hope you know not to buy them. I hope you enjoyed this rather shorter video from me today. Let me know what you thought of this one down below. TIMESTAMPS: Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00 What I Purchased, Pricing & Red Flags: 1:31 Unboxing both drives: 3:21 The 1TB 990 Pro Drive: 4:31 The 4TB 1080 Pro Drive: 5:36 Connecting the Drives to a PC and Issues: 6:52 Testing the 1TB 990 Pro & Results: 8:41 Testing the 4TB 1080 Pro & Results: 10:25 Conclusion of the Investigation: 11:23 Final Thoughts & Outro: 12:33 Be good people!

[@titanisback1]

Don't have to apologize for the text on the video. I'd much rather you put "This is a scam" than have people see a video talking about the item and buy it.

[@sorsu]

its fine that you have to put text on it, just sucks that they would take videos to advertise their knockoffs :(

[@TheMoonSpoon]

I understand why the fake USB drives sell, but how many people are actually tech-savvy enough to know and install an M.2 drive, and still fall for this BS?

[@user-ce7ic1ze2u]

My mom still falls for those! 1tb usb 3.2 drive, no name I tell her to only buy name brands: lexar, sandisk, pny

[@NCHLTII]

​​@@user-ce7ic1ze2uyou provided an example of USB, not NVMe

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Unfortunately, there are people who purposely buy such drives, install them to computers and sell them to gullible. For example, install them to laptop, install Win 10, tell to customer you have working computer with 2/4 TB drive. At first glance it looks so, then after some time computer starts crashing, but the seller is already gone.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

M.2 drives are easy to install. You remove one screw and slot it in. They're literally the easiest component to install in a PC. No wires, no cables, nothing to get wrong.

[@TheMoonSpoon]

@@Boogie_the_cat Lucky for you that you never had to play friends and family tech support. Most normal people don't know what an M-key M.2 slot is, if their device has one and how to open said device.

[@indask8]

Expectation : Cheap 4TB drive Reality : Expensive 128GB unreliable drive

[@agustinusreynaldi7101]

Either refurbished drive or just total fake drive with just slapped with Smasnug SSD sticker

[@ademiravdic]

The latter​@@agustinusreynaldi7101

[@DJdoppIer]

They even advertise these fake Samsung SSDs on eBay. So frustrating when you find a good deal on a Samsung SSD and then realize it isn't a Samsung at all.

[@chazlabreck]

Yeah I'm a tech and I got scammed from eBay.. I knew better and I still got took

[@mi-rek]

120GB low speed SSDs? Even worse than that. These can't be formatted to make them proper 120GB drives.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

they could be if you could figure out what the controller is and find the mptool for it. but that's a whole lot of effort for a slow junk SSD :D

[@TheRetroEngine]

You can never do enough of these types of videos. A lot channels cover it once or twice, presume you got the message, then go onto something else. I love you come back to it, keeps it fresh in people's memory and shows newer scam products.

[@PrinsessePeach]

I always stay away from any storage sold on AliExpress.

[@nevter2712]

Not really, I bought plenty of crucial and WD drives (genuine) and even Chinese brands like xraydisk drives.. they all work great, never had any problems with customers about them (I resell them locally)

[@eggshapedisraelioperative6317]

Just stop buying from these sites full stop. Stop supporting this business mode

[@paranoiia8]

I seriously though that they are so cheap that when you peal those stickers.... it would rip chip with it xD

[@simontay4851]

ThoughT! Not though.

[@lordowl3533]

Maybe sort of unrelated but i used to work for auto auctions and we had a truck with an aftermarket radio that didn't work and they sent me to an audio shop to put a new radio in it and they gave me the broken radio to figure out what to do with it and the top of the radio said "NAMSUNG" in the Samsung font

[@chronic_hemphog]

Going by wiki at the very least, namsung is surprisingly an actual company... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namsung_electronics

[@thealmightydragon5401]

​@@chronic_hemphog was not expecting that

[@samholdsworth420]

​@@thealmightydragon5401lol they make JENSEN

[@ThatTransistorGuy]

Careful, these scammers do tend to put malware on these drives that are able to execute as soon as you plug it in.

[@TheGeneReyva]

"Scamsung" "stick with reputable companies for your storage" This isn't on Samsung. This is an Aliexpress and Amazon thing.

[@DJdoppIer]

And even eBay too.

[@arudanel5542]

thanks to KZbin Dislikes Enabler being installed, I can see that AlliExpress' CEO downvoted the video. :P

[@Creedoo]

And now one of the employees making these scam drives

[@pierreuntel1970]

that controller is likely a realtek RTS5732, they've lasered it off which is pretty common for scammy things so they can't be traced by the manufacturer for using a rejected batch or scamming people

[@Erebus-PCFX]

Its not even that, it's a Realtek RayMX RM1135, behind it says "RM1135_DEMO". It's SATA3. The other could be a genuine PCIe controller (RTS5765DL/RTS5762DL) paired with terrible/dying NAND chips.

[@MandrakeFernflower]

"RAYMX RM1135" is just what the hacked RTS5732 reports back to windows 10

[@Erebus-PCFX]

@@MandrakeFernflower the RM1135 is actually specified as the RTS5735 interchangeably. So the RTS5732 & RTS5735 are both part of the RayMX range. There should just be a tiny difference between the two.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

@@Erebus-PCFX They likely used "discarded" quality control failures. the Micron (to most people known as Crucial) chip on one of them at 6:36 in the video appears to be genuine, and the BGA marking NW955 decodes to a 1 Terabit (128GB) chip on the official site

[@Erebus-PCFX]

@@Knaeckebrotsaege It could be recycled Flash packages from dead electronics too. The Chinese do that all the time for low-spec/low-price electronics (eg: the C602 chipsets of those cheap socket 2011 Xeon motherboards)

[@NeonNightmares]

They have reliable and really good stuff but its not easy to find with all these fake products taking over the website.

[@zmywaczeq]

love watching fake phones/storage videos they always interesting for me

[@SrWolf90]

4:10 There is also the Serial ATA logo on the boxes hahaha, when this logo should not be there.

[@PotatoPCGamerz]

Serial ATA is much slower than NVMe so yeah thats a problem

[@Erebus-PCFX]

First SSD: Realtek RayMX RM1135, SATA 3.0 only; (terrible controller, even for SATA speeds) Second SSD: Probably a Realtek RTS5765DL or RTS5762DL PCIe 3.0 x4; (bottom of the barrel PCIe 3.0 controller) The NAND Flash is either YMTC rejected chips or random recycled chips from dead SSDs, it should be why the speed is so low, those are dying/dead.

[@CanizaM]

I see Micron logo on 2nd one. Part number is a 1TB TLC, low speed is the norm for TLC without any cache.

[@Erebus-PCFX]

@@CanizaM I don't think 35MB/s under sustained load is normal for a PCIe SSD. Those are salvaged chips from dead drives or systems.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

@@CanizaM careful, it's 1 Terabit (128GB), *not* 1 Terabyte

[@jeffsan0.5]

Just looking at the M.2 connector you can tell the fisrt one is a SATA drive, It's has a M+B key while NVME drive would be in M key

[@Boogie_the_cat]

There will always be that one guy in the comments who claims you CAN buy a 4 TB NVME for $50. I don't know why those people exist.

[@mr-qt5oc]

Those types of people annoy me a bit. It's already known that scammers are going to scam hard and it's going to make matters worse if they encourage them to buy these scummy products.

[@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret]

The "980 Pro" isn't even a proper NVMe drive, it's just a mSATA drive (2 notches for mSATA vs 1 for NVMe) 😂

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

I see soooo many of them on the used market over here in Germany, some with sellers straight up pretending it to be Samsung, others just hinting at it without mentioning the brand. And always a bit cheaper than the real deal but not all that much, and some ridiculous explanation as to why they're selling this "awesome" SSD lol. It's just as bad as the slew of fake USB SSDs. And the worst part is, the people managing the takedowns on the platforms here in Germany don't seem to have any clue about the topic, cause all the fake offers stay up no matter how many times you report them as fake/counterfeit Edit: there's also a whole bunch of 2.5" SATA fake Samsung SSDs, sometimes without samsung branding, sometimes with butchered branding (Sumsang etc)

[@agustinusreynaldi7101]

That's why I go to actual trusted sellers, and look at the reviews Also ask the warranty - I also forgot to say the ads similar like these scam fake tablets with ridiculous specs at low price (12G RAM, 512G ROM, 10 Core like that)

[@freedomofspeech361]

I wouldn't buy anything from Ali-Express or I-Wish...Way too shady to me to trust.

[@AUM_3000]

Thank you very much for your effort. I would like to say that Lazada which operates in the Far East are a subsidiary company of Alibaba group. They also sell a lot (a lot) of fake electronics. They use the same ways to cheat on customers.

[@ClannerA01]

Thanks, was curious about these. I knew these couldn't possibly be real especially as prominent features of the samsung labels were missing, but a new crop of 870 SATA SSDs have started appearing and i was wondering about those, the simple labeling on them meant they didn't have to change anything. And this video reminded me about these 980's and the 870's wouldn't be any more legit than those.

[@Holycurative9610]

The other problem with these fake drives is malware as well. People will still buy them though because they see a bargain and can't wait to buy them with out doing any research!

[@stevenspencer5367]

Cheers Smuz, I do find things like this interesting. Scammers will scam and these selling platforms really dodo enough to ensure that the products sold on their site are real. I don't buy from them anyway. Although a lot of I know have purchased stuff from these sites without issues. But they haven't bought any tech. I can see that some people would buy either of these modules to use in ipod modding. So reviews like this are needed. BTW was watching a video by a guy looking at Walmart Iphones and he had plasters on both thumbs. ( different styles to those you use). You've set up a trend. 😂

[@agustinusreynaldi7101]

Also E-commerce platforms still letting these scammers around Also watch out for non online scammers

[@stevenspencer5367]

@@agustinusreynaldi7101 well at least they are good for our favourite content makers.

[@ayylien]

I would also stay way from buying SSD from Amazon, with sellers you don't know if you are getting good drives or counterfeits. I bought a SSD recently from them and it did not come in a retail package, but luckily the return process went fine.

[@bitemykrank1970]

I bought a couple of the Aliexpress scam 990 4tb drives a year ago, neither worked at all upon installing them, neither seller gave me a refund. I lost about $120AUD for nothing.

[@pedrooooolma]

Try to make a Frankenstein cell phone using these welcome cell phones😂

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

These are getting more convincing! I got my 970 Pro from my local game store :p the drive was cheaper in the game store than in the actual pc shop . . .

[@kyle51895]

I’ve had a 250 GB Samsung SSD for 10 years now, definitely pays to get good stuff. Mostly just use the laptop for web and word processing so don’t need much space even to this day.

[@devil5051000]

4:28 Last time I got such a cheapo screwdriver with something it broke while tightening the 4 screws that were installed on the product. 3 of 4 screws done, final one - pling! ^^ I bet that notebook is a war hero, saving its owner from a grenade explosion or a bullet. And it is even working after that.

[@philiptownsend4026]

Addendum to my Fruugo comment. I have learned elsewhere that sellers are afraid of any PayPal chargeback against them succeeding. Apparently there are compliance points to be lost and penalties applied with a loss of reputation. This might apply with bank chargebacks too - banks may see chargebacks as damaging to their own reputations and might impose restrictions or costs upon account holders proven to be dodgy and may even close accounts. They take chargeback seriously and act on them. Soooo - never be afraid to persue a LEGITIMATE AND PROVABLE chargeback with a bank or PayPal as they are institutions operating under strict laws and oversight themselves. They will not tolerate dodgy dealing on their platforms.

[@brianwalker7771]

Looks like sata speeds out of that 990 pro wannabe. Honestly faster than I would expect from these gems.

[@EPIC0MUSIC]

Next time : fake 8tb 4070ti super plus pro 5G ssd on Aliexpress 😂

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

6:36 Micron (to most people known by their consumer arm "Crucial") has a NAND package marking decoder. Punching in NW955 from the second line yields "MT29F1T08EEHBFJ4-T" which is a 1 Terabit (aka 128GB) NAND flash chip (bits divided by 8 = bytes)

[@artemistosini3617]

The NMVe SSD would likely be faster plugged into a machine directly. All the DRAMless SSDs I've seen in a while use Host Memory Buffer to cache their translation table, which won't work on USB adapters

[@poorpoppa]

you beat me to it I was going to make a video on these fake ones and the fake WD ones as well.. Guess I'll just make a video on fake Mic's and cams lol

[@mr.number9279]

How are they this slow? What NAND chips are this bad?! It's so sad...

[@CanizaM]

I think the NAND on the second one is a Micron part that they've tried, rather poorly, to scrub the markings from. It seems to say NW955, which corresponds to MT29F1T08EEHBFJ4-T:B, a 1Tbit (128GB) TLC flash.

[@user-dw6fj1py1o]

So Great!

[@AtroposLeshesis]

They are selling these all over eBay too.

[@Spyd77]

I guessed 120Gb and they are, but that's an easy guess, as nowadays nobody manufactures the kind of flash chips an SSD controller uses in capacities below 120. In this case they can't cheat and use flash chips designed for USB drives... ...unless you design an M2 card with an USB host controller, an usb flash controller and a cheap 32Gb flash module, also having 3 chips in it will look as if the fake M2 SSD has a DRAM cache!, and this solution should be even cheaper than using a SSD controller and SSD flash modules. The scam manufacturers need to step their game if even I can come with better fake products on a KZbin comment.

[@TingFeng77]

installing a pcie to usb controller probably costs too much compared to just giving you reject bin 120gb

[@Poodleinacan]

For around 70$CAD, I can get a good 1TB TeamGroup NVMe M.2 SSD that will work well (that also have an integrated cache)

[@voulieav]

good work

[@Maddin1313]

1080 Pro? 4K Pro or bust! 😂

[@maksymiliankuznik4856]

can't wait for 2160 Pro SSD

[@kenanthony2962]

Hey I did locate a few drives on Ebay (Original 1080Pro SSD Solid State NVME M.2 SSD Hard Drive Gaming 4TB 2TB 1TB New) $49.98 for 4TB

[@chesshooligan1282]

You should have bought the 1180 Executive Pro Plus 😂

[@eshkere_eshkere69]

The "Samsuka"

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

9:00 that's the partition alignment. has nothing to do with the drive capacity. this number will show up red (and with a big fat BAD) if the partition alignment is screwed up (from cloning a HDD to a SSD with a crappy tool) which would lead to NAND writes more than doubling for every write operation you do, ie degrading performance and wearing out the NAND *much* faster. obviously not a factor on junk like his, but on a real 990 Pro you'd hardly notice a performance difference, but meanwhile the SSD does a NAND killing speedrun in the background

[@fe.w2024]

Could've been a haul if it's atleast 1 tb 😂

[@patrickcardon1643]

Amazed it's 128GB, thought it would be 64GB

[@miciso666]

for me 320 euro 4tb. thats like half the price my pc costed me... holy crap. i got a 2tb a while ago black friday sale for like 140

[@user-qh3lr4wp6m]

Did I just read your post on reddit? about this same thing?

[@SMOOREZ]

No I never posted anything about this on reddit. Maybe someone else has?

[@PalmitaLimpieza]

My mom bought one kislux and she loves it. It had been there for over 10 years when she went out with it.

[@Natepwnsu]

Good video.

[@ivito514]

You're funny (you actually made me laugh when you said that), you don't need to sabotage these drives to return them, they're already sabotaged 😆 Send them a link to your video, showing there is only one chip and the chip type along with your test results and tell them they're dirty scammers and they should be ashamed to sell this, and you want your money back, they won't argue 😉

[@vizard_ichigo_3893]

You even have to be careful with known brands because these fake items can be sold in or be accepted as returns at stores

[@paultheretrogamer]

Try taking a pic of the memory and zooming in if possible

[@Iridescence93]

When you're getting something that even reputable Aliexpress brands (that do exist) charge $250 for for $50 honestly what do you expect?

[@Duncan-Donuts]

That 990 pro is probably a sata ssd instead of nvme

[@AurasV]

I got a fake Samsung SSD from one supposedly "safe" retailer here and it was so bad, not even 1gb/s read and write speed, the font was off and I'm pretty sure my laptop got 50 viruses just from plugging it in. After i took it out the writing on the sticker just... Smudged when I put my finger on it probably from the heat. The only thing that looked okay was the white plastic thing? (Idk the name) Inside the box, no it didn't come with any documentation and the app said it's counterfeit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I'm glad i took pictures of everything cause it was just too funny not to.

[@tallpaul9475]

You ruined the performance and capacity of these drives when you peeled the stickers.

[@Willow1w]

Never buy any type of memory from China

[@edzusozolins007]

Unfortunately some PC sellers are putting them into PC's to boost price.

[@NotNemesis0]

Buying pc components of ali's sites is always a red flag

[@mruczyslaw50]

RAM is actually good from aliexpress, I haven't really seen any sticks that were fake, they are pretty cheap and work fine with specs as in description.

[@MrJ0mmy]

i got a 512gb ssd for 23nzd and its real

[@Akahigep]

It is fine if you actually search for real products. And it's quite easy tbh. Just don't search for first brand super good price deals. SSD of chinese brands are decent, I use a couple of them

[@anonymousshoe842]

CPUs are also generally decent, normally you save a small amount compared to retail stores. The main caveat is that you don't have any warranty and you won't have a stock cooler, as you only get the CPU in the plastic tray.

[@paranoiia8]

Red with some start in one corner :D

[@nekowolf583]

I was hoping they would somehow fit a usb flash drive into a m.2 board.

[@50shadesofbeige88]

I'm still waiting on mine to show up. You beat me to the punch. 😂

[@nekowolf583]

I know a genuine panaphonics when I see one.

[@bills6093]

Why is it that they can never, ever, get the printing righ with these fakest? It always looks just a little off, just a little fuzzy, just a little wrong.

[@FiatUno2003]

The fact that they still are trying to scam people with shit like this makes me sad. Sometimes people just want to cheap out without knowing about these scams and then they get a expensive flash drive that will just corrupt and delete their data and they probably won't even know about it.

[@agustinusreynaldi7101]

I did buy some unknown USB drive back then And it's broken and corrupt after some use

[@poorpoppa]

Well over seas this happens a lot, however you would think in the USA and sites like Amazon would be safe to buy and it's not, fake MVMe's. video cards, mics, webcams and the list goes on. The sellers will drag their feet along killing "Return Time" offering replacements and spam you till the refund window expires! it's really sad

[@4ida]

Try validrive (or whatever it's called) alternative to h2testw

[@dylanlindsay1993]

smoorez i think the nand on that second fake ssd was actually a micron chip... i seen the m on it which is the logo micron uses... i still wouldnt trust them though! 1 cuz fake capacity n 2 they slower than a ide hard drive from 2002..

[@georgen.8027]

The Micron markings are real, just they failed QC and get sold on after being lasered over.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

Bingo. The BGA code NW955 from the 2nd line translates to a 1 Terabit (128GB) NAND flash chip

[@chongtak]

Samsung and other brands are changing their design very often. People who don't get themselves updated would not even know those fake SSDs look like actual Samsung stuff. And those who are savy just skip those when they see them.

[@Omnishredder]

£180 for a crucial 4tb p3+ from amazon works well been using a year now, if you want quality and value, good suggestion for anyone to consider

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

It's a DRAM-less QLC turd of an SSD that screeches to a halt (80MB/s) as soon as the pSLC cache runs out. As a secondary SSD as a pure storage drive or steam game library dump, it *might* be ok. Using it as your main drive with the OS installed? hell no

[@sumungnote7]

This time i'll actually watch the full video and not make a timestamp to leave the video for a bit.

[@pegcity4eva]

You can get a western digital 1tb for like 80 bucks now

[@igorstollberg3780]

these are all over Ebay Germany, if you report them to Ebay, nothing will happen to the sellers as Ebay doesnt find an Issue with the drives. Please report them anyways

[@lschmitt]

❤❤

[@nasseralrashdi3797]

I bought FAKE Samsung SSD 4TB from EBay but they sent me 2TB and it's not working properly when you try to copy data it's disconnect and reconnect again, avoiding to by this you will regret they are thieves and they rejected exchange or refund.

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

I never get any no name ssds

[@-_-pan96-_-45]

Delaihe electronics... More like delay shitty electronics 💀

[@techbro-ke]

Aliexpress offers other legitimate products do not be led to think that everything on the site is fake

[@Kzxhy]

hey smoorez! there's a cool chinese phone i think you should have a look at, it's an iphone se 1st gen clone, released before the se was even announced. funny thing is, it's an actual iphone 5s, just in a custom smaller iphone 6-esque housing, i think it would be worth taking a look at if you could find it!

[@candidosilva7755]

I bought a new pc im not swiming in money but all the parts were bought in the store. Then i buid it at home. Stay safe guys.

[@digitalsparky]

amsung... geez, could've at least called it Scamsung....

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

I've seen some 2.5" SSD fakes sold with "Sumsang" branding lmao

[@mahmut2626]

1080 one is looks like an intel chip (idk i got one it says SMI) and i bought one ssd from Aliexpress (BR brand) it works

[@yotoprules9361]

Be careful as Billion Reservior AFAIK may use defective nand chips, so it may work fine for a few months, just don't expect it to last a long time and back up your data.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Well, do not buy something that is 3 or 4 times too good to be true 😁 Als,o check the store, customer reviews , how long they are operating on certain platform etc ...

[@shardsprivatechannel]

so first sign. these are SATA keyed 1 notch, is M.2. 2, is SATA.

[@SMOOREZ]

So the laptop I used to test the 990 Pro only accepts pcie drives (it's an acer b311). The other one is definitely pcie though.

[@Axlotoproblems]

I did buy one of these and it died after a day but got my money back.

[@Waldherz]

The 7400 read and 6900 write claims arent even that wild, if we ignore the fake drives themselves for a second. Any good Gen4 SSD can hit these marks with Gen5 ofc being much faster.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

not mentioned: overheating speedrun on all of those fast SSDs, especially Gen5

[@tendosingh5682]

The risk you take when buying from aliexpress.

[@pcc404]

i think it's a microchip logo

[@mamv80]

Lol just in case avoid whatever has Samsung on it. but srly their quality an customer service have gone down the drain lately

[@coolerbarulhento]

usa o chipgenius para ver a controladora

[@blakegriplingph]

*Smasnug

[@Adam-je2cp]

so dont but samsung drives since they scam? thats what i get from calling it scamsung and not fake samsung

[@NozomuYume]

Any chance the blue screens are being done by some fuckery on the PCI-E bus? Might be attempting to infect the firmware on your system with a firmware-level rootkit, would also explain why it doesn't work at all on the external enclosure because there it's trying to infect hardware that isn't there.