SSD 1080 PRO is not what you think: it passes itself off as a Samsung SSD, but it is a fake

The PCI Express 5.0 SSD they have existed for some time but the appeal is still missing Samsung with a replacement for its best PCIe 4.0 SSD, the 990 PRO. And it is perhaps from this assumption that someone has decided to put an SSD called “1080 PRO” up for sale on AliExpress, a well-known Chinese e-commerce sitewith features very similar to those of the South Korean company’s products.

The fake, artfully built, can however be discovered in a flash. First of all, the prices, so low that they cannot be true: between €36 and €42 for a 4 TB SSD is not credible. Then there are the various images: one indicates sequential performance up to 15,800 and 14,500 MB/s in reading and writing respectively. Already high values ​​for a PCIe Gen 5 SSD, let alone for what should be a PCIe Gen 4.

In other places we talk about 7000MB/s, in still others reading and writing equal to 7450 and 6950 MB/s. In short, a clear scam. And if you’re still not convinced, Korean tech site Quasarzone (reported by El Chapuzas Informatico) has some Bought one to test. The working unit turned out to be a clear fake as expected: on board they found 96-layer NAND memory and a Realtek controllers with support to PCIe Gen 3.

Many of the benchmarks performed have certified that the unit delivers performance significantly lower than that of a Samsung 980 PRO (1000 MB/s vs 6000 MB/s with ATTO), with even worse sustained performance. For example, transferring a single 100GB file took 1815 seconds with the fake drive compared to just 33 with the SSD 980 PRO.

Another test highlighted that the 1080 Pro slows down to 2 MB/s once it reaches 3% of its capacity, not even if it were an old cheap USB stick. In short, stay away and always buy through verified channels: looking for a bargain at all costs isn’t always good, sometimes you risk getting ripped off.