OffGridInTheCity
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There was a period several years ago where fake ebay cell sales were rampant. Personally, I still can't quite believe this was (is) allowed... but it's not good insist on being naive.
Thought I'd post this as it reminds me of 18650 cells a while back. I bought what I thought was a 2GB EVO SSD drive on ebay - e.g. "870 EVO" is a long standing, high-end brand - and just assumed China was selling the real thing.
Installed it, and after about 2hrs of copying files onto it the rsync command went bonkers and research revealed the internals went bust, no access, no files, no structure, cannot re-format, totally useless. Scratched my head a bit and started looking closer....
Look at this side by side - knock-off 870 EVO on the left vs real thing on the right
* The knock-off's label isn't on straight if you look close!
* The knock-off's mounting screw holes are tapped into metal case as apposed to mounting screw holes on real thing
* The knock-off has screw hole (top 1/3 left - used on inside to screw the electronics to the case) but the 870 EVO has an indented star pattern screw on outside.
* Finally, like batteries, the knock-off weight is 41g (for twice the capacity) vs 46g for the real thing
Pretty 'empty' inside.... the weight difference makes perfect sense. I read on a Reddit their's went bad at 117GB... which is pretty much where mine failed as well.
I posted a 1 star review / do not buy and immediately got an email from the seller saying "If you adjust you're review we'll refund your $" - which is a non starter for me. Hopefully the "do not buy" review will help others.
Sigh - it continues to be anything goes in today's world.
Thought I'd post this as it reminds me of 18650 cells a while back. I bought what I thought was a 2GB EVO SSD drive on ebay - e.g. "870 EVO" is a long standing, high-end brand - and just assumed China was selling the real thing.
Installed it, and after about 2hrs of copying files onto it the rsync command went bonkers and research revealed the internals went bust, no access, no files, no structure, cannot re-format, totally useless. Scratched my head a bit and started looking closer....
Look at this side by side - knock-off 870 EVO on the left vs real thing on the right
* The knock-off's label isn't on straight if you look close!
* The knock-off's mounting screw holes are tapped into metal case as apposed to mounting screw holes on real thing
* The knock-off has screw hole (top 1/3 left - used on inside to screw the electronics to the case) but the 870 EVO has an indented star pattern screw on outside.
* Finally, like batteries, the knock-off weight is 41g (for twice the capacity) vs 46g for the real thing
Pretty 'empty' inside.... the weight difference makes perfect sense. I read on a Reddit their's went bad at 117GB... which is pretty much where mine failed as well.
I posted a 1 star review / do not buy and immediately got an email from the seller saying "If you adjust you're review we'll refund your $" - which is a non starter for me. Hopefully the "do not buy" review will help others.
Sigh - it continues to be anything goes in today's world.
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