Fakes on the rise online in all market sectors, even in SSDs: if you purchased this device, it may be fake.
How nice it is to shop online! One of the blessed reminiscences left to us by the cursed pandemic Coronavirus. In 2020 we couldn’t go out, the local shops had little, and in some cases nothing, we definitely started using thee-commerce.
Not that it didn’t exist before, but since that annus horribilis everything has changed. All very nice, except that buying online is becoming a problem, at least for those who hate fakes. And this thought is not at all obvious.
Many young people, but not only them, go looking for fakes in the clothing sector: the garments are so well made that they are preferred because they cost a few hundred euros compared to the thousands on the list. An increasingly widespread phenomenon in every market segment, also in that of SSDs. With everything that entails.
Fake remains fake: be careful, this is how Samsung’s SSD was exposed
A lot of solid-state memory drives for data storage have appeared in Chinese retail outlets low price, fakes. Obviously. Always be wary of a price lower than the list price. None of the traders do charity work.
The fakes in question mostly concern the Samsung 1080 PRO SSD with speeds (alleged) up to 15.8 GB/s. Quasarzone has unmasked this phantom Samsung 1080 PRO, a model that has yet to be released. The flea on the nose, beyond an SSD not even announced, obviously the price, quite interesting. Too.
So Quasarzone decided to buy the SSD convinced of touching the fake firsthand. The drive’s capacity was rated at 4TB, with a maximum speed of 15,800MB/s, a “strange” figure considering that today’s fastest Gen5 SSDs using the fastest Phison E26 controllers can reach up to 14.6GB/s s. That’s it. Already the package did not cross the border: normal box, without Samsung branding. Quasarzone’s official tests took care of everything else.
The Samsung 1080 PRO SSD was the opposite of what was advertised, it didn’t even pass the MediaTester benchmark, PCIe 3.0 x4 interface but lower than that of the 980 PRO, poorer performance than an external drive. A real scam. By now we should be used to dealing with fakes.
Always betteror contact the parent companiesat least to authorized resellersstarting from the assumption that with e-commerce all that glitters is not gold and no one gives you anything for free. Watch out for pricespay attention to the smallest details, because a fake, even if it is a beautiful imitation, increasingly similar to the original, remains fake.
