4Tb (£18) / 8Tb (£21) / 16 Tb (£25) USB drives on ebay

[james73]

Any thoughts on these?

They've popped up recently on Ebay and they're very competitively priced but the phrase "too good to be true" is currently leaping to mind.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8z6s58

 

[Yaayuh!]

They'll be fake.
Likely just have a weight glued inside and a small USB drive that reads as though it's larger than it is.

Avoid.

Edit:

Spoiler: Something like this

 

[pepp77]

no chance in hell they will be the size they say.

 

[Journey]

I have some £50 notes I am willing to sell for £10 each if you are interested OP?

 

[StarShock]

best case scenario they are just an empty chassis that you can add your own SSD to. Though even in that case the listing is dodgy AF

 

[Hotwired]

16TB
Up to 30MB/s read speed

 

[KompuKare]

Sorry, they meant n30KB/s.
So even the 4TB would take 1,500 days to fill. And even a fake 16GB would take a week or so.
That way anyone trying to use H2testw or similar will give up long before they find anything!

 

[LeoK]

I wonder if this could be a similar extension to "fake" USBs. Aka the 1TB thumb drives which are actually 128mb and report wrongly into the OS.

 

[Syore]

These are fake and are targeted towards people are that are not tech savvy minded. Its quite surprising people still fall for them though.

 

[james73]

I wonder if this could be a similar extension to "fake" USBs. Aka the 1TB thumb drives which are actually 128mb and report wrongly into the OS.

These are fake and are targeted towards people are that are not tech savvy minded. Its quite surprising people still fall for them though.

Yes, that's what they look like to me. I know someone who bought a 1Tb USB stick a couple of years ago but when I checked it out it was only 256Mb. Pretty sure he bought it on ebay.