I was looking for another ssd drive to start storing all my old dvd archives. I got a 2TB and 4 tb drive a while ago, for a reasonable cost. I thought they would be a lot cheaper now, but I found out they have more than doubled in price, probably due to memory factory lines moving to Artie stuff.
Anyway, Aliexpress had a lot of them very cheap and I bought one. Turns out they are a carefully engineered fraud for Windows. I used Linux on it, and got endless errors. I finally jammed zeros on it, with 'dd', and found out it was only 16 gb, but all designed to look like 16tb. There is nothing on the comments, and these are being sold by everybody and their dog. Even Ammie has them.
I got my full return from Ali, but this is huge. With windows, they expect people to use them up to the 16gb, and they have months to sell them. Good thing for them, nobody reads me. I also expect there might be rotten Easter eggs for windows on them. After all, in for a penny, in for a pound.
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Thank you for this information. I haven't't heard this anywhere else.
Yes, the worst comment I saw on Ammie was that it produced errors, and was slow. Nobody has shoved in the zeros. It's the scale that's amazing.
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