Fake SSD from AliExpress | How to recognize a fake

[@pesokpesok]

i saw one of those "factories" in China few years ago. A friend working there said that apparently only about 10-30% of customers ask for a refund and since they are selling garbage(bought from major manufacturers the cheapest (grade c or worse = garbage) in wholesale) they would still make profit even if 90% of customers had to be refunded. biggest problem is that platforms(like ali mentioned in this video) keep shutting them down and they have to keep reopening new sellers accounts. There is a minimal risk of being busted by authorities but from his experience hes only ever heard of a few of these busts/raids in over a dozen years. So unless something changes i would not expect this problem to go away anytime soon - so just use your common sense(too good to be true rule) and make sure to buy wherever you can ask for a refund from a platform itself and not only from a seller(they might be gone by then with new name/account open)

[@mikaelandersson4733]

Probably the best and most explicit/honest video on fake products (in this case storage) from Chinese resellers I´ve seen on KZbin. No fuss, just how it is and works with the dispute process and all. Thumbs up!

[@mauriciothesouza4195]

It's sad to see what Mikael tells us, that there isn't any good Software which could unveil the real capacity of a fake SSD, because I"ve known that there's a software imbedded in the device which simmulates those terabytes, cheating any and every benching software, which check it as a good and faithful device. Then he says that we could find a Script or a Link in the Description that could do the job, but I couldn't find that. I went to his Profile, but there's nothing about that there too. Does anybody know something about that?

[@mikaelandersson4733]

@@mauriciothesouza4195 Huh? What do I have to do with this video? I only made a comment.

[@mauriciothesouza4195]

@@mikaelandersson4733 Oh, sorry, I thought you was the author, who is Mikael too, he he...

[@DivannnTV]

Aliexpress Деньги не ВОЗВРАЩАЕТ???? Предлагают выслать товар обратно ?))))))

[@nostradamus9608]

We all should thank wonderful china for all the FAKES and REVIEWS like this! Long live corporate GREED! lol

[@repairman2be250]

Have had one of those 2TB 2.5" SATA SSD's. Complained to seller who did not listen. Opened dispute with Aliexpress and after some forth and back I got my money back, but Aliexpress did NOT acknowlegde the drive was fake. SHAME ON YOU ALIEXPRESS!

[@UsingUsing01]

How you gat money back from AliExpress, can you tell me how you did this

[@IntasarnW]

@@UsingUsing01 Just open the dispute. all my previous disputes ended in my favor, full refund without even having to send back the junk.

[@mgrb3]

Call support and explain the SSD didn't work, the full time maybe this process is 20 min ​@user-wj2np6wy1i

[@vulc1]

@@UsingUsing01 That must have been way back. Nowadays, Aliexpress will not refund you, but ask you to ship the item back at your own expense.

[@TeddyBism]

Walmart sells same crap now.... beware.. Walmart will not stand behind their umm 3rd party sales........ wd reds which are not but are goldfirs t650 1000. Read write via usb just fine so far but sata connection .... nothing.. smh

[@davidspencer5668]

Thank you for sharing the video with the helpful information. Unfortunately, I fell victim to a scam last year when I purchased a solid-state drive that was supposed to be 1 TB. After installing it, my computer kept crashing, and I initially thought it was a software problem. However, after some time, I realized that the SSD was the root cause of the problem. I replaced it with a genuine SSD, and my computer has been working smoothly ever since.

[@claudiodiaz9752]

You should never cheap out on storage. If you cannot afford an ssd from a good source, wait a little more or buy a good quality HDD, if you have this option.

[@unknownGoblin]

Almost the correct answer, wait a bit more and then buy the SSD

[@thelonercoder5816]

you lost me at HDD. Get an SSD if you can.

[@xXVibrantSnowXx]

Yes but also no, there is lot of reputable chinese SSD brand around in Aliexpress, sure the speed may feel slower a bit, but who cares if it can just do the job?

[@udance4ever]

​@@thelonercoder5816HDDs are fine for many jobs. u can get a 14TB refurb Enterprise drive for $100 now - that's $7/TB!

[@geraldabeyawardena5606]

Thank you for exposing these scams. Looks like avoiding Ali Express might be advisable!

[@udance4ever]

well maybe for SSDs. id still recommend getting other doodads!

[@StayMadNobodycares]

I was going to buy a suspicious 1tb sata ssd on Ebay from a Chinese seller and I asked the seller if it was fake and he straight up told me they were. Some sellers will only tell you the truth if you pry for it, and even then they speak in a sort of riddle to avoid directly answering the question but they answer it non the less.

[@shoddits2156]

Pro tip: 1.check the buyers review, particularly the one star reviews and read why stared so low 2.don't dismiss any red flag 3. uses common sense

[@kaushalalanka]

Many thanks for very descriptive video. I almost fell for a ssd, as there are many reviews with five stars. Either the reviewers are ignorant OR fake. You saved me good 30-40 USD and most of all, saved from the embarrassment.

[@oroville12345]

Fuckin commie's 😂

[@용접아재]

Dear Russian friend, we are very sorry that fake Samsung ssd is circulating.😢😢bad China

[@ivanlimzg]

Most important: Check reviews(and filter)

[@D.von.N]

All I need to know is to put some product to the search engine and see how much Aliexpress asks for them, vs real deal. The same on Amazon or ebay. Chinese penetrated our market, you throw it out of the door, they throw it back through the window.

[@jasephase2k933]

Most or some of these have probably got a mobile micro ssd soldered into board

[@maxcady360]

While Aliexpress does have sellers that sell genuine SSDs, there's a lot of scammers out there. That 4TB SSD drive that looks like a Western Digital Sata SSD is really just an overpriced 120GB SSD.

[@vulc1]

Well even if the advertised storage is correct, the seller might say the SSD drive uses TLC NAND when in reality it uses much slower QLS NAND

[@TheGuitarModder]

Hey man. There's no link in the description to the script

[@Swenser]

Always contact the seller first. Tell them you are going to use h2testw software to test speed and capacity and ask them if it's fake you will get a refund without returning item. If you get a clear response agreeing they will refund without return then its most likely ok. If they give polite but not agreeing response like don't worry friend is good. Then it's fake.

[@chalion8399]

There's many places online to buy good, reasonably priced computer parts. Myself, since I have a computer store less than 20 minutes from me, I rather prefer to shop there for my parts, in case I have a problem or issue, I can go back there for help.

[@alexutzz8635]

well ... I have to say it about that.. you bouth that gpu and it died after 1 month of use sadly and is kinda unlucky so , I bough a GTX 1660S for 150$ from aliexpress in april this year and after 4-5 months it works perfectly fine (before changing the termal paste and termal pads after one month of use because it starts heating to much [80*C] ) so...what I mean is that they are not all fake is just random luck and you have to be carefull at what you want to buy

[@Joe_Blo]

Im old enough to have paid $300 (on sale at Fry's) for a 1gb hard drive to add to my screaming fast Pentium 90 running Windows 95. Actually, I'm even older. I learned to program in Basic on on a Tandy 8088 and how to write to & read data from punch cards. And how torroid memory coils were wound, assembled in a course in college.

[@maxcady360]

And here's the hard truth about SSDs in Aliexpress... The genuine ones have roughly the same price as the ones sold in your average store. A 4TB sata ssd costs the same everywhere.

[@mhnoni]

One of the most useful videos I've seen, thanks a lot.

[@Jazzynupe1911]

Another trick is to reformat the drive after getting it. Many times those controllers can't handle the reformat and will break...

[@bdulAhad0]

For someone reason, these guys aren't using fake brand names. The ones their "factories" send in our country put brand names and copy the packaging.

[@XxnxX-XxnxX]

Most of cases since it involves politician side money

[@brucelivingstone365]

I'm a regular buyer on Aliexpress and, on balance, very happy with what I get, which is sometimes surprisingly good quality. However I got sucked in with the blue and white SSD that is being used as a reference. Yet I had purchased another (same capacity) brand that cost about 15 bucks more only a few months before and have had no problems with it. Well I won't get fooled again (till the next time)

[@davidspencer5668]

I did also :-( but equally, I do purchase many items via Aliexpress and seldom have issues. Cheers mate

[@ferluisch]

Hey about that 2tb being $90. There currently (prob on sale but currently) 2tb ssd from teamz and PNY for about ~$65.

[@udance4ever]

and as of today, a "Western Original" 8TB NVMe for $60!

[@nicolaus9443]

Great Vlog, when I rate negativ Aliexpress goods, then my Aliexpress account get blocked, for several month

[@chadbrick67]

Hes doing the chinese kung fu film dubbing again

[@udance4ever]

lol I totally thought something was wrong w YT today! 😂

[@nodiceism]

Thank you! I looked around and came across many useless videos but your one was very helpful and informative! I'm at work now so will try later to check for fakeness. Is there anything that you can recommend for checking authenticity of wd sn740 1tb 2230 in a steamdeck? (so Linux). Perhaps aida64 will work there. I'm fairly computer illiterate...

[@shinjihirako4773]

If it came with the steamdeck pre-installed and you bought it brandnew then it’s 100% authentic. Why would you even doubt Steam’s products in the first place 😂😂😂

[@nodiceism]

​@@shinjihirako4773it didn't come with the steam deck...

[@strategicthinker8899]

Scammers get angry at the prospect of not getting paid for their scam.

[@MojeZamówienia]

Good job. Thank you very much for this recording. I just wanted to buy the M2 Drive on AliExpress because the price seemed attractive to me. I won't do it now. I added you to my subscriber list. Thank you again. Greetings from Poland

[@qbitsday3438]

i am one of the victim of this SSD.

[@samanthagriffinv2.08]

I wouldn’t have a problem if they sold it at the genuine storage amount new or used if it was priced accordingly

[@udance4ever]

I'm sure quite a few do. the problem is the number of scammers trying to take advantage of the situation.

[@davidharrington1359]

So I made the mistake of buying a 2T SSD for 12.00 or so. When I got the drive it looked nice and actually reported to windows as a 2T SSD. However when I tried to copy 200gb of music files to it it was very slow 1-5 mb or even slower. I tried a quick reformat of the drive and this seemed to work but I had the same issue. I then tried a deep format. This whipped out the drive completely and windows no longer could see it. Even using disk manager. so I opened a dispute with the aliexpress. The seller or Ali sent me a return label with shipping paid. they said this was a one time discount of 7.99. I tried to talk to the seller but that portion of their site is under construction. So I packaged the drive up and put the label on it. It's going back to New Jersey. We will see if I ever get a refund. Unfortunately I ordered two 2TB flash sticks for 5.00/each that have yet to arrive. I'm sure they will have similar issues. I've purchased some fun stuff from Aliexpress but you have to be careful

[@CrocoDylianVT]

If buying for SSD's on AliExpress buy from brands you can only find there, it's more likely the little unknown rando is more real than the supposed known brand

[@camberwellcarrot420]

I picked up a Beelink S12 Mini, which has pretty much identical specs to yours, in the after Christmas sales, and it's very impressive for what it is. I haven't tried gaming on it, but I installed Linux Mint LMDE and Plex on it and i swear it's doing a better job than the i5-3450 with Quadro P620 it'll be replacing when streaming 4K videos on Plex. It's not a huge upgrade, but the power draw should be considerably less.

[@carlosipec2270]

I had a GK3 Pro N5105, 16GB, 512GB. And a Beelink GTR with Rhyzen 9, 32GB, 512GB. Bought about a month apart.Two totally different beasts. And the retail prices state it loud and clear. ;-) My point being that both are/were absolutely excellent products on their own niches. Recommended for sure. The GTR in particular, show excellent finishing and really "feel" as an high quality product. Unfortunately "Murphy's law" hit me hard and strong. And after a divorce. Get a new house. Moving etc, etc. Precisely a month ago, from this date, my house burn down! My cats died, most material stuff was lost... Including both PC's. 😞 Now I got a cheap mobile CHUWI Gemibook Pro, N100, 16GB, 512GB. Just as before excellent value for money.

[@MercuriMedici]

There are some 4090 and 4080 GPUs for 300 to 400 I wish you can review them. They have a 90 day return policy

[@TalginHanks]

He said that he would leave the link in the description but ofc he never did lmao.

[@bigbadspikey]

New sub here... Thanks for that Axoflash test info. I want to test and restore the original capacities of the fake sd cards and usb flash drives that's lying around here so I can still somewhat still use it for emulation of games.

[@vokonikov8216]

Closing the dispute ( which you never have to do is as a customer ) is The best advice !!!!

[@Patrick-im4pd]

I will never buy any storage again on AliExpress. Bought supposedly 32/64GB HP and Kingston drives but the write speed is so terrible, it starts fast sometimes and then slows down under 10MB/s, the next min it keeps hovering between 10MB/s and 20MB/s while my real Kingston USB drive consistently stays at 20MB/s or 21MB/s.

[@Perplexer1]

The audacity of those Chinese scammers. They even want to argue!

[@uhohwhy]

chips cost pennies and ssd market is just greedy. makers are so accustomed to 20x profits that they wont negotiate.

[@daviniarobbins9298]

Why would you pay £25 for a 16gb portable ssd when you can buy a 16gb USB3 flash drive for less than £5 from Scan which is reliable seller in the UK?

[@sihamhamda47]

For 25 pounds you can get 128GB Sandisk flash drive from official store

[@SpartanJoe193]

Thanks, comrade. Almost got myself into being scammed 5 years down the road

[@iskandartaib]

This is an old scam. They started by doing this with USB sticks. And they're widespread, to the point where it's pointless to buy USB sticks on AliExpress, or even Amazon.

[@b4urEnvy]

Im so happy i saw your video and i can say that this sounds so right by the way the chinese sellers deal with sales and disputes being a buyer from AliE for more than 10 years, now i only buy low value stuff (cases, stickers, screen protectors) its not worth buying anything of value from AliE

[@aravindraja8112]

at 4:50 you have mentioned that it has 2 banks each 64 total 128 may I know where it wouls say the capacity of each bank and can you share the tool so that i can check my ssd too?

[@stevec5465]

Yeah. NEVER order from AliExpress or Temu.

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

Hi do you have a link to the scripts mentioned at 04:20 please?

[@andisadler2897]

Ive had a few of these as i have 140,000 old house eps.and jeed storage. Most have just been flashed to look larger than thay are ajd w9rk until you hit the orignal limit then failure. Do thw right thing, get a proper ssd from a proper company.

[@Synic42]

Thank you for this deep, informative and comprehensive video!

[@DropkickJimmy]

Just discovered mine is fake in a pc I bought. It’s been slowing down for a few days now it won’t even boot. Pain in the backside.

[@TomasNevin]

Thanks for your video. Got refunded by AliExpress after taking your advice. 🙂

Is NVme or Sata SSDs disks are usable if I format them with disk part with disk part for only volume of 100 GB? Therre is an article that you can do it with USB drives in article "AIDA64 - How to detect the real capacity of storage devices with AIDA64".

[@Perplexer1]

AliExpress doesn't ban these sellers. If they would actively ban them, there wouldn't be that many of them.

[@udance4ever]

this must be true as I have actively reported a few. however it definitely is a giant of whack a mole.

[@LamNguyen-tswb]

I never buy cheap fake chinese SSD, RAM, Flash Drives and Graphic Card. I'm rather buy real name brand such as Samsung, Corsair, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, WD, Sandisk, ADATA, Timetec, Memoz, Hynix, Crucial, PNY, Teamgroup, Kingston and Toshiba.

[@peterberchowitz6859]

why does the video not match the audio ?

[@homiehufsa568]

russian channel translated to english

[@C0LPAN1C]

No rice for you. I shouldn’t laugh as a fellow Asian, but damned if that’s not hilarious. 😂

[@CharlesReedPi]

Sad, mine doesn't even work, I got nothing from it, maybe I'll dissect it for fun to see how it works, or was supposed to work

[@alekpo2000]

can you fix one of these drives? or just write less than 100gb in and will be fine

[@Raintiger88]

Your cat did not approve. It's a good cat and hates when non-technical people are scammed.

[@maitotechlab9035]

Cool and informative video, im on the way to make similar video in portuguese.

[@bdulAhad0]

Refund 1$ and send another drive 🤣🤣

[@ephraimedeh4448]

pls how can i get the software you used, cux i bought an 4TB drive and it works only upto 60gb then everything starts getting corrupt. Aliexpress isnt helping matters,

[@KisameSempai]

why are you calling them samsung or western digital? they look similar but there are no branding on the ssds...I was worried that the branded wd and samsung ones on aliexpress were fake.

[@MrMalam1234]

Clickbait, ironic how fake thumbnail calling out fake SSDs

[@MrMalam1234]

I love Aliexpress, but only non electrical stuff because I can't trust them..

[@KisameSempai]

is it me or the video is out of sync with the audio?

[@yoshy2628]

He speaks Russian, or so, english version was added after. That's why you think is out of sync.

[@Jean-Naimar]

Fake SanDisk 1TB with 128GB here in Thailand

[@DanielField2023]

This is why I buy my stuff in Amazon never had an issues with fake stuffs, and never will go to AliExpress I don't trust Chinese stuffs.

[@JCD87]

The one and only trick is NOT to buy ANY form of device to store your data on. The counterfeits will let you down, and the legit stock is more expensive than buying locally. But I get it; it's great for creating content. Only this has been done too many times now.

[@2freakout]

My personal experience with Ali Express: Fake items: Grafisch cards Lenovo 2 tb USB sticks and other no name brands SSDs All my items bought from ALI EXPRESS are like weekends; they don't last long, even shorter than a weekend, if not immediately. Help desk are very polite, but that's the psychology in the game. Don't buy any electronic and PC storage items from AE

[@mevk1]

Ali Express is criminal and s/b punished severely

[@puciohenzap891]

It's like calling Amazon criminal, Ali is a sales platform just like Amazon.

You said that it is not worth to dispute. You mean I must push Refund button and it means that I contact AliExpress, after not accepting to send another drive and small 2$?

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

they're selling some evo 998 4tb and some of the reviews (which images include) says they're real, and are $36, which is ridiculous

[@mgrb3]

If you look if they have 2 or more reviews 5 stars you will notice the pictures is the same 😂

[@kantengakabey9961]

Sadly I fell for it... Well I'll just keep files in it without going over 1tb

[@prashanthb6521]

LOL, once again nice demonstration. Thanks for the info.

[@thomaswsilva6866]

is there free software to test drives for size.?

[@saehalovesbilly]

我们将解决这些问题并在下一个假货上做得更好

[@XxnxX-XxnxX]

Thanks

[@XxnxX-XxnxX]

Make a better fake ssd so we can buy it for cheap price

[@thanhlephuong7687]

Could not, it is better do not buy anything china pages

[@sheikhsaju-bw6nm]

As a Bangladeshi i feel u brother 😂😂 i was face same problem i Don't know why chinese they DOING fake products 😂😂 but they Refound Money Very quickly 😂😂

[@aceberganabolic]

ssd softwares of the companies do not read fake ssds' so u can understand it is fake

[@aliinalgeria]

in most case the products have same specification same look. the difference is the name.i am sure if nike buy chesp shoes from prime mark they they just put their nike sticke they can increase the price to 1000% . people buying name not product. the big boses knows how to still your money and make u happy. wake up . of course original products are better but not cheaper

[@johnnycardoso1965]

Thank you for sharing the video with the helpful information.

[@Cleasonsook]

umm where is the link to the software to test the ssd ? even the transcript dose not show the name of the web site to test

[@JoaomarchetiMarcheti]

Could you find it? I wanted it too.

[@Grissinen]

Aliexpress is good for cases or tech gadget but not for memories, they are more or less all garbage or costs same as here in offer.

[@groneberg7385]

Is there a Reason why the video is badly dubbed?

[@B_A_R_C_O_D_E]

There’s a delay with your voice

[@maitotechlab9035]

It seems rusian channel translated to english.

[@peterskaliotis4408]

Thanks mate cancelled the order and got a full refund before they could dispatch. Cheers!!

[@C0LPAN1C]

I got a 4TB nvme on Black Friday for 170. That’s a crazy good deal. Watch prices for weeks prior to purchase, they vary.

[@daniellachman5520]

how to format to real capacity?

[@Dtr146]

I say every person who watches this video should go buy one of these drives. Then refund it because it's fake. AliExpress needs to have a better grip on what's being sold on their platform.

[@ShaighJosephson]

The first mistake is shopping on AliExpress... I thought everyone knew that it was Chinese knockoffs... 😮

[@BlueStinger475]

Some stuff on there is good. If you know your stuff and have some sense in product worth. You'll be safe.

[@armoureddanger]

solid video man, really well researched

[@UsingUsing01]

But how to get money back after bought this fake SSD I have ordered an 512 GB ssd goldenfir for 27 dollar , I convinced that it is really not fake by the review , and now I saw your video and I have question , my ordered not arrived yet , can I cancel the order and get money back

[@misterhoudi2824]

How do I know which is fake and real when shopping locally?

[@buck6498]

Hi i did not cached the names of the software you used Many thanks

[@abruptlyblunt]

dude your killing me, i've need a 300g-320g ssd and the only one i can find that isn't hundreds of dollars is the netac, even though i had never heard of the brand after day of searching i finally had talked myself into buying the natec ssd but now after watching your videos on ssd's i'm back to square one, i saved $70 but still don't have a 300g ssd, one company wants over $700 for an intel 300g ssd, i'm not getting the the deal is with 300g ssd's, i've been running a $60 team group 256g ssd for over a year without a problem and to get a 512 isn't much more so why are 300's so expensive and rare.............

[@shodan6401]

Great video, my friend. This is important work that you do. Thank you.

[@kosmosbos]

Excellent video. You got a new sub.

[@JackyThamGK]

Zhina rubbish alot, i never use them