2TB Flash Drive Scam
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2017
- Just a PSA: Don't buy "2TB" flash drives for $10. They're scams. Honestly, the fact that this was even ~10-12GB was impressive.
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Buying a flashdrive from ebay is like borrowing a condom from a stranger.
lol, that comparison! I wouldn't even *borrow* a condom from a friend XD
HAHAHA!!!BORROW A CONDOM???FCK CONDOMZ!!!
Reminded me of a Seinfeld episode.
yeah it's not like ebay is one single shady internet store, tons of reputable retail chains have stores on ebay.
still better than no condoms
I have a friend who bought one of these and was convinced it was real, then he told me he backed up all his data on it. I not only had to explain to him that it was fake, but that he had also lost 100's of gigabytes of data. These scams really piss me off.
that's sad :(
Oh dear! I would totally die trying not to die laughing, if I was in your position!
BoardOfCircuit He also needs to learn what the term 'backing up' is in that case also!
100gb of porn loss is not a biggie honestly :)
That's ssad
Why does eBay still allow these to be sold? On the positive side, they're free USB sticks as you can claim your money back. but it's insane this still goes on.
Refunded even if not paid via PayPal?
Kek
Even same for Shopee...
ďd
I have bought 7 USB 2 TB flash drives and successfully back up 4 computers. They work great. Also they were less than 10 dolloars.
I am glad someone is taking the effort to try to keep people aware of scams. Keep up the good work, would like to see more of these types of videos.
So you are telling me that my 2TB of Porn are gone?
The comment matches the channel avatar perfectly!
There still should be about 10Gb left, just hope that it hasn't only saved the 'acting' bit at the start of each video. :)
TheLegend27 not having an external drive dedicated to porn, what a casual.
if you have 2 tb then i know you have a backup drive ;)
TheLegend27, who did you kill for that username?
AMD logo on the box behind the monitor RYZEN ???
Yes, reviewers have them now.
yup
That's not there.
Gamers Nexus yup its not there i didnt see anything
Doesn't look like anything to me
"Plugged it in the wrong way twice, as is the standard with USB." I lost it, haha! And it's so true!
HP Mønsted I honestly never have that problem
@@ArtisChronicles Yeah I just look at the usb sides and know which way they should be placed. And I have no clue how he lost it, when he didn't have the USB to start with.
I saw an ad on Facebook for the same offer. I needed to look to the internet about it and sent me to you. Thanks for the details. Well done. I now continue to be watchful on B.S. like this flash drive.
Steve.. oh Steve. This is a 2TB drive. You just need windows 12 to use the full capacity
nonono, he needs Windows 9. That's why they never released it, because then it would reveal all of the price gouging tech companies do.
He must download more NAND flash storage so he can install it on that drive to unlock that capacity.
Pryce Newberg they did release it, you could have downloaded it but they took it down
The extra 2TB are DLC
He needs to delete system 32.
I... wish I had looked into this twetny hours ago. Moral of the story: don't shop online at 2am.
😂😂 man i was shooing on the Walmart app for a flash drive and saw this and went “ this can’t possibly be right “ how and just 12$ ??? How did they fit that much storage is such a small thingy nah let me look up a review “ 😂😂
this might be one of your best vids ever. short, informative and helpful
eBay needs to start cracking down on this type of garbage that's on their site.
Strider it's not hard to spot it, I've used ebay for years and never got scammed
Just click "North America" in the filters on the left side while searching. That will eliminate all the garbage.
nope some claim to be located in Norht America or Europe, but still it gets shipped from china, the rating is a much better indicator, as close to 100% and with a couple tens of thousands votes will prevent most of the shit
If a seller lies about their physical location, it's instant buyer win in an eBay claim.
eBay don't care.
This is a great idea for a series keep up the great work.
Very informative, well presented and very credible. Great work. 👍
I heard that the human eye can't see more than 10GB anyways. So having a 2TB is just a waste.
Foot in mouth moment, clicked the wrong reply.
lol no worries :)
Lol...I get it....I think
Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa
Cringe as hell
Hey Steve, wanna move that box a little further out so we can see it?
Tech innuendo LMFAO
Which one?
AMD one behind the Laptop
Mebbwebb He bought at on ebay too and only got a quarter of the box...
Thank you for your support buddy, keep it up. I Really appreciate your work 😊😊
Thanks so much for the heads up. Tech changes so fast!
Great Video Man!
I want to see more of this, no one on youtube is doing this, thanks guys
Thanks for this info!
Wait, fake DVI cables exist? Man, I learn something new everyday.
Almost, is that a Ryzen box behind the monitor? Because I'm pretty sure it is.
Thank you for debunking the cheap 2TB flash drive scam. Sadly, over 3 years later this scam is still alive and kicking on eBay and Amazon likely due to impulse buys before learning the pathetic truth since "it's only $10 dollars", lol.
I just got scammed thankfully I saw some comments on the problem Im searching bcoz of this damn 2tb usb
Thank you for this!
All I wanted to know in 3 minutes! Appreciate it! 😀👍🏻
Lovin' your Asteroids canvas. :)
Funny, I'm getting an ad right below your video for 2TB flash drives on ebay for around $20 lol.
Here's a question, is that ~10GB on your drive stable? I got a 128GB flash drive a few years ago (was pretty sure it was a fake but had to check) and after I did a h2test I found it had 14.5GB real storage. Does that mean I can dump a 14GB file on it safely, or will it end up corrupting?
I enjoyed this. keep it to this kinda stuff and it's more entertaining
totally agree, i buy shit like that just to tear it apart myself haha
Thank you for this video, I live in South Korea and one of their online shops had a "Lenovo" 2TB for $40, thank God I received a text from the seller saying due to demand they don't have inventory, so I told him to cancel my order and I did my research and discovered your video, thank you.
My dad gifted one to me and I was really suspicious about the whole deal and decided to do some research, I'm glad to know I didn't make a terrible mistake by using it
thanks for the heads up GN
Gotta love that pixio monitor and its wobbly stand. I've got one myself and can't wait to get it on an arm.
more of these please.
Thanks for the heads up!
you save me from getting scammed! Thank you! I almost fall on eBay, but I read the description and it said 2tb real 32gb and that was made me wondering what does that means. So I asked a question to the guy and he told me that I will only be able to save 32 gb on the USB but on the system it is going to appear like it has 2tb of space. Why would I want to buy a 2tb memory which is really a 32 gb?
Love that just below the video is a sponsored section featuring 2TB flash drives on eBay.
When flash drives first came out, I bought a few on ebay, and learned the hard way just how bad of a deal they are; I only buy brand name ones, from reputable dealers, now...
Gamers Nexus, what media player are you using for the demonstration?
I had a guy at my last workplace claiming his friend bought a 10$ 512gb legit drive. I explained to him several times that it most likely was a fake drive like this one. But apparently it seemed more plausible to him to believe that you could get a usb drive like that for 10 bucks.
This has been a thing for a long time, I work at an electronics store and people come in all the time and demand 2tb flash drives, and dont believe me when I try to explain to them this scam D:
Of course, they are smooth brained boomers
your the man Gamers Nexus!!!
I did the squinty eye meme when I saw these on Amazon. Searched it on youtube and immediately clicked on this video. Thanks.
Thanks for the PSA!
I keep seeing 16GB (2x8GB) RAM modules for sale on Ebay at Buy It Now price of under $20 even though real ones are selling for over $50. The seller accounts are almost always new with zero feedbacks.
How many viruses and trojans did you clean off of it before you used it?
experienced this years ago when 256GB micro sd were pretty expensive but not so much on ebay... was indeed a scam but was not aware this was possible with micro sd. got my money back in the end :)
i cant believe this is going on, search 2 tb flash and the first amazon listing shows a flash stick while the reviews and questions are about a christmas stocking. How is this allowed?
imagine if it's a usb killer :D
then who ever owns it is totally fucked!
Quetzalcoalt If you dont mind selling a 50$ usb flash drive for 10$ then you could fuck up some poor guys 600$ pc.
Dave Sterling it doesn't cost 50$ to make a USB killer 😂 so China could do this very easily
Nah Id rather add an extra function to the usb. Like send alt+f4 after a set interval. Not sure though if one USB can simultaneously be a keyboard and an external memory device.
nipi tiri you could make it act like a USB hub and then 1 drive could be dozens of devices. Also most phones show up as a phone and a storage device.
I saw one of these on Amazon and Walmart too... nasty scam indeed.
Well done for exposing this. BTW I've suffered a scam with an allegedly "exfat-only" USB-HDs, priced about half what such a drive should be. Basically, it doesn't work. I suspect the "exfat-only" idea is silly.
Some adverts are hilariously honest with such great lines as "factory upgraded to 2tb" while another states clearly the actual size and how it shows up and that it can damage files .....under 200 different pictures of it clearing showing a "2TB" Flash drive.
Does eBay need security deposit for any account applicant ? I didn't find any these junks in amazon
And UA-cam is now displaying ads for several types of cheap 2TB flash drives under your video...
I'd like to see a class action law suit against the people who perpetrated this fraud.
Have you guys tried to benchmark the watch dogs 2 on a dual xeon, Im so curious because of XEON MUCH THREADSS
I got a "sponsored" bar under the video advertising "2tb Flash drives".
*mixed signals*
Splendid Asteroids™ print.
May i ask where you obtained it?
What is awful is that I got scammed like this, and the scammer kept saying that I was angry because I don't know how to use flashdrives on a computer and he kept saying he would pray for me. Like, WTF? I searched for months for a tool to fix the issue, and while there was a tool to find the actual size of the drive, there was no tool to fix it, which means it's easy for scammers to just get away with this.
When buying something that looks too good to be true, look at the seller's ratings and reviews. It will often reveal if it's a scam or not.
I've gotten screwed (or, rather, people have attempted to screw me) by these things several times. Nowadays some counterfeits are so good that you literally can't tell the difference. One seller in particular lied straight to my face about the fakeness of the product.
When you buy flash drives, the first thing you should always do is make sure that you can fill the drive and get back exactly what you wrote:
1. Grab a file large enough to fill the drive.
2. Compute a hash (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, whatever) for it.
3. Copy the file to the drive.
4. Unplug the drive and plug it back in.
5. Copy the file back to the computer. If this process fails at any point, this is enough to consider the drive fake.
6. Compute the same hash as on step 2 on the copy. If the hash is not exactly the same, the drive is either fake or faulty.
Is it possible to update a text file in a flash drive ?
Is a flash drive only good good for storing data ?
I love how there are a lot of people still using the old classic media player.. love it.
I have a client that is constantly buying these scam items. I have repeatedly told him to call me before making these purchases but he somehow believes that I'm the one who is being "less than honest". For the life of me, I can't figure out why he keeps coming back to me. His "2TB" flash drive for 4.49 is 16GB and his 39.99 1080 TI is.... well..... it's not. I've been showing him your videos as proof. I do look forward to seeing what "new technology" he brings in though. Keep up the good fight sir, I love your work!
Recommendations on a drive for storing ROMs and movie files for my Android box?
Have you reviewed the Best buy cable with anti virus, lol I don't know if they still have but when I saw it I totally did a facepalm.
A 2tb hard drive is almost $100. I'd imagine making that much smaller would cost a pretty penny
What a fascinating scam. I did not expect it to appear to be 2GB in the finder. That's pretty clever.
Yeah don't trust eBay drives, my 4gb (generic Chinese brand name here) 970 only has 3.5 gb What gives
coincidence? I think no !
Dawson Cook the last 0.5 GB is just extra slow, but still available
Thats cause GB->GiB conversion, its not really considered scam these days.
Mr. Rapter Thats a joke my friend, it relates to the vram fiasco of the gtx 970, where the last 0.5 gb of vram were so slow they might as well not even be there.
Probably 4Gb is the capacity before the drive is formatted and ready to use.
Imagine all 2TB files playing completely and he's scratching his head trying to figure out
I bought a flash drive of Ebay once of resenubla size and never even got it. Is there a way to fix it to show the correct size?
you can "put together" 1tb usb drives for around $150. get an msata m.2 drive with one of those m.2 to usb enclosures. I went a bit on the extreme side and did the nvme route to usb c but works great. It's bigger than regular flash drives but also orders of magnitude faster
Is there a way to fix these if one comes across them? That is can I repartition one to the actual size and then safely use it?
I like the way you liked to get scamed just to educate us :) Thumbs up :)
RYZEN BOX?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
yep its the rizen 1000% sure
I bought one advertised on Facebook from BKH. Using Fastcopy, I tried to copy several hundred gigabytes to the flashdrive. It stopped at just a little over 28 gb. I tried copying a lot pictures using the Windows 10 copy feature, it appeared to be working, but I found that all the files are unreadable. Thus, the first approximately 28 gb are readable; anything past that may appear to be on the flashdrive, but it is actually not there.
I bought one kind of just to see about it. its kind of neat, but I was wondering if there is a way to maybe get the actual capacity of it? I dont know might be more work than its worth but, it would be a fun thing to do I think!
Reminds me of the scams on eBay where they were selling an Xbox box for over $300 and people were scooping it up!
A tiny flash DIVE...LOL!
bro, how did you get a white cable management puck? i need that in my life, my s340 elite is useless without it !!!!!!!!!
2019
Seller: Do you know there is a ten dollar flash drive with 5TB?
Me: ...
I'm just amazed they don't come loaded with malware.
The ad I got for this was for a 2TB kingston flash drive lol
I bought one of these and my computer slowed down so much aswell as taking up a CRAPTON of space and the usb was just acting weird in general but as soon as I unplugged it all that space was freed again
I want to see more of these lol.
I got scammed for a 250GB flash drive. How can I tell the actual size of the drive? Add 1GB video at a time until videos quit playing (like you did)? Can I "unspoof" it?
lol at the shopping links in this video, promoting 2TB flash drives for $16
Hey Steve, could you do a video on ( 2:16 in video) spoofing a memory controller? I personally would like to use this, but in the opposite way. Say I have a 32gb flash drive, but I only want operating systems to see 16gb, and potentially be able to modify the memory controller to reveal the "hidden" section of my flash drive? I'm assuming messing with the memory controller isn't something anyone's going to do via software, but I have no history with them.
Also, I recognize most of those USB stick case/chassis in the search, from aliexpress/alibaba lol. I'm sure Steve knows, but most retailers on aliexpress/alibaba will sell blank objects (no label) and offer to engrave, laser-print, or do some other form of labeling free for a customer. This is mainly for reselling to a global market, or just putting a company logo on things a company bought and didn't make... But obviously it can be used to do things like the aforementioned & trick people into buying phony products.
Thanks Steve!
Danke Stefan!!
Why would anyone give this a thumbs down? This is very informative
THe scammers themselves
the folder that shows , System Volume information , if i am not mistaken , that is a virus ??
I got an ad for a Kingston data traveler (a 2TB flash drive) lol
Thank you!!!
This would've been nice to know a year ago before I bought those dumb fakes off Wish. I didn't even know you could spoof drives to make them appear as a different capacity. I formatted it and thought, "Well, it still says it, so it must be good..."
Probably means my 500GB Huawei Micro SD in my phone is also not even close to 500GB... which would explain why my pictures "auto-corrupt." How disappointing, could've saved like 50 bucks.
Is this STILL a thing for 8GB drives being firmware hacked to showing it having more capacity?
I saw an ad for this kind of product on Facebook.
There was alot of people in the comments saying how it worked, they clearly didn't load more than a few GB onto it before they commented.
I tried to report it to facebook, but they surprisingly didn't have any report category for scams or fraud, they only had a category for "spam" which sounds much less serious than a scam.
And the worst part as it was a legitimate promotion, like, someone manually reviewed their ad and let it get onto facebook.
Oh, and it said it was waterproof too!!! xD
It was the same style that you have there, with no cap.
how do you format it,so that u can use it as normal? as a 16gdrive
It's kinda weird how if it's too good to be true, it usually is. However, I bought 5 X540-T2 10GbE networking cards which are normally $700 for $100 (I saw some for $300 on eBay, but that was still too much for me), and they all operate at full speeds and they are still running just fine. So, perhaps it's not always if it's too good to be true it probably is.
Good video, man. We have almost the same hair hahaha. Do you just shampoo and condition and towel dry?
Somewhat disappointing you didn't do a tear down :P
why cant u let us see that ryzen box behind the laptop? amd showed it.. cant wait for the review..