Western Digital is miss representing their SSD products, How to Avoid getting scammed?

[kfarris]

 

I just bought a 2tb SN770 SSD from bestbuy which cost me 128 dollars & sadly the item does not look like the advertisement box or picture where it hides all the Printed circuit board electronics.

 

This is unfortunate because I had bought it for a glass case to go with my aesthetic pc build.

Since it is significantly different from what it was portrayed as this would count as false advertising & I am not sure whether to return it to Best Buy & try for a different model or if I'll just get scammed again with the pretty cover pictures.. Are there any that you offer that aren't falsely advertised?

 

Thought I was getting an aesthetically pleasing SSD for my glass case PC

 

 

 

 

 

Instead, you get this.. & no it does not come with a screw or sticker just a panflit..

[Eigenvektor]

42 minutes ago, kfarris said:

Thought I was getting an aesthetically pleasing SSD for my glass case PC

The question you have to ask yourself… are you buying an art piece to put on display, or a piece of technology to use? You'd have a case of "false advertising" if it doesn't perform as it should. In most cases the NVMe will be hidden behind some type of cooler on the motherboard in any case.

[kfarris]

My particular board doesn't hide them & has them located above the GPU & a second slot below it. There is no provided cover either from the motherboard manufacturer. The entire build was designed with LED lighting built into the board, case, cooling, etc & for the lights to show this on the board it just leaves a bit of an ugly taste to look at. 

 

Now I understand why most people don't care since they probably don't have theirs designed for show-casing, atm. But in my particular case, I do /

 

From what I hear their PS5 branded one is exactly as the picture/advertising they do for it.. So I may return & buy that one tomorrow if they have it.

[Dr0idGh0sT]

I would strongly recommend returning that trash immediately, why would you pay 128$ in Dramless slow SSD? Makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Team Group T-FORCE CARDEA A440 PRO cheaper, better and has sticker. 

 

Crucial T500 I think even includes black heatsink. 

[Ryker Robb]

Wd does this for a lot of their other products as well. Like their hdds.

You really should be using a heatsink for your nvme drives anyway.

[Ralf]

Are there even any m.2 disks that come with a screw?

[Blue4130]

22 minutes ago, Ralf said:

Are there even any m.2 disks that come with a screw?

The screws come with the motherboard, not the drive.