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Found this on amazon and really want to know what is in this thing. Obviously its a scam but people in the reviews says it shows up as 1TB but isn't actually that big, and deletes old data as you put more on. But how does it show up as 1TB in the first place.

Thought it could make an interesting video analyzing this little USB, and also maybe a PSA against scam products.

 

https://www.amazon.ca/1TB-Mini-Flash-Drive-Memory

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Plenty of these things. Once you use a program to measure size its normally only 2-16gb

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I'm not sure what's interesting about it. It's just going to be a flash drive that spoofs its capacity so the system picks it up as larger than it actually is. It's a fairly common thing

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Lol such a scam

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The controller is programmed to report 1TB but in reality it'll just keep overwriting itself. They are usually only a few GB.

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These drives have their firmware modified . They show up as 1tb despite having that much memory . As far as the controller is concerned , it's a 1TB drive . But when it tries to fill up more than it's actual capacity , it overwrites data , resulting in data corruption.

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There's no such thing as a 1tb usb drive. They are programmed to report they are have 1tb of space, but in the end it is usually between 512mb-32gb

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Your avatar explains it all.

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1 minute ago, -TesseracT- said:

How is this even on Amazon, smh :/

I asked myself the same question when there were hundreds of fake Nintendo Switch listings near the time of it's release. I guess it's just hard to keep up with the sheer amount of spam? As soon as one bogus listing goes down another one pops up.

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20 minutes ago, MC_MAN said:

Found this on amazon and really want to know what is in this thing. Obviously its a scam but people in the reviews says it shows up as 1TB but isn't actually that big, and deletes old data as you put more on. But how does it show up as 1TB in the first place.

Thought it could make an interesting video analyzing this little USB, and also maybe a PSA against scam products.

 

https://www.amazon.ca/1TB-Mini-Flash-Drive-Memory

This is a scam, I once purchased one to check it out, it ended up being 16GB, even though it said it was 64GB(£5). Once you reach the capacity of the stick you'll get an error saying it's full or it will do some fake transfer where it deletes all excess files. 

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43 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

The controller is programmed to report 1TB but in reality it'll just keep overwriting itself. They are usually only a few GB.

pretty sure there was a program to so something similar like this, hold on.....................................

doubles your "capacity" 

called SDATA.

 

LINK: SDATA.zip

WATCH YOURSELF

MIGHT BRICK YOUR USB

 

 

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I always thought Amazon only sold original brand new products with invoice, at best refurbished and such stuff, I didn't know it sold junk scam stuff like eBay... can someone explain to me this.

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3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I always thought Amazon only sold original brand new products with invoice, at best refurbished and such stuff, I didn't know it sold junk scam stuff like eBay... can someone explain to me this.

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Sold by jiaxingshiguli Trading Co Ltd and Fulfilled by Amazon.

There.  It's been explained.

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4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I always thought Amazon only sold original brand new products with invoice, at best refurbished and such stuff, I didn't know it sold junk scam stuff like eBay... can someone explain to me this.

Allowing 3rd party sellers to list whatever they want with minimal vetting results in things like this.

They rely on you reading the reviews to avoid it. Reporting it doesn't get it taken down unless you go at Amazon with a mob.

Had a friend have his products ripped off by a Chinese company and listed on Amazon for way less (not to mention inferior) which ended up hurting his brand. Took over 200 negative reviews and lawyers to get it taken down.

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6 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

There.  It's been explained.

So they are outsourcing the suppliers/sellers to the products they offer?

 

I sincerely would hope that Amazon did a better job filtering good partners from the bad partners, specially with its international reputation, main reason why I asked was because I came by the story of someone who went to the bottom and proved won a refund and free credit even for buying a legit Sony PS3 Controller that end up a forgery.

 

I wondered how could it be and now I know.

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Just now, Princess Cadence said:

So they are outsourcing the suppliers/sellers to the products they offer?

 

I sincerely would hope that Amazon did a better job filtering good partners from the bad partners, specially with its international reputation, main reason why I asked was because I came by the story of someone who went to the bottom and proved won a refund and free credit even for buying a PS3 Controller that end up a forgery.

 

I wondered how could it be and now I know.

Uhh... No, I don't think you quite get how Amazon works.  Amazon also does FULLFILLMENT.  As in you ship a bunch of YOUR crap into Amazon's logistics system and then sell it through Amazon and this includes rapid shipment by Amazon Prime.  This is where things are labled 'Fullfilled By Amazon'.  The goods are in Amazon's network but Amazon is basically your middleman.

 

So no, this isn't outsourcing.

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Just now, AshleyAshes said:

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Oh I see now, well... if any thing I have no particular respect for Amazon any more :ph34r:

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1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Oh I see now, well... if any thing I have no particular respect for Amazon any more :ph34r:

The good news is that they don't really care.  About half of everything you do on the internet is running AWS and you arn't going to engage in any kind of boycott so they have no motivation care fuck one about your opinion since you won't take any action over it.

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they don't just spoof capacity. 

Some will use flash chips discarded by quality control, which will get corrupted data. 

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3 hours ago, Being Delirious said:

1tb usb drive

56 minutes ago, Being Delirious said:

I shouldve stated that the usb 2.0 ones are not 1tb

Hold my beer...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intenso-6002560-Station-5400rpm-External/dp/B003Y3M4N6

 

You never said anything about it having to be a thumb or flash drive...

Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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