How to detect a fake SSD or flash drive before you get burned

It’s not just on dubious trading platforms such as Temu. Even Amazon can be infiltrated by dubious dealers who advertise SSDs ...
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His dad buys a new hard drive: it doesn’t work, he opens it and what he finds is hard, but not a disk

When a father brought home what seemed like a bargain-priced 20-terabyte hard drive, he didn’t expect to uncover one of the most bizarre tech scams circulating online. The device looked legitimate at ...
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A Gamer Unscrewed His Faulty Hard Drive and Couldn’t Believe His Eyes: Inside Is Just a Cheap Memory Chip Attached With Cheap Glue

When a gamer’s external hard drive suddenly failed, curiosity led him to open the device—and what he found inside was far from what he expected. The storage unit, purchased three years earlier as a ...