@@unnamed715 I bought a bunch of 1TB NVMe SSDs last year during a *big* slump in SSD pricing. Take a bunch of those and a multi-slot array, even a _poorer-than-poor_ bloke like me can have a 16TB flash drive... 😇 (Though admittedly; I'm more one for buying cheap-ass 500GB HDDs from secondhand shops and carrying _those_ around. They're so cheap because no other fc🇬🇧er wants them, they retain data for longer (Less bit-rot) _and_ 4TB of WD Blues gives you a *lot* more free weight training compared to four thin slices of ultralight PCB... 💪💯😉)
This video reminds me of the time my mom bought a “10TB” flash drive for $20 to store her photos. We lost so many family photos. Later, she got Amazon Photos, which is a much better way to store your photos. Moral of the story, DON’T BUY LARGE FLASH DRIVES FOR $20!!!
Cloud storage sucks. Literally just get a 32 or 64GB thumb drive for like a tenner and that'll work no issues. If you want to be extra meticulous, get a couple of them and make backup copies that you can store in other places. I have no idea why anyone would think they'd need more than that for family photos, let alone even close to a single TB. And yes, cloud storage sucks. Besides the "cloud" being just someone else's PC, you have to continuously pay for it and all it takes is Amazon saying you broke the ToS (they don't have to elaborate) and guess what, all your shit's gone. Can't log in anymore and your access to "your" files is gone.
@ After seeing this reply, I asked my mom how much storage she had used on Amazon Photos. Apparently, she had used multiple terabytes for her photos alone! She also has over 16 gigabytes in videos. The amount of time it would take to download and move all of the photos to a flash drive is insane. Plus, Amazon Photos comes with a Prime subscription, so it was a no-brainer for her. While, yes, I would say that for most things, local storage is better, for terabytes worth of files, it’s probably best to use cloud storage. I personally use the free versions of multiple Google Drive accounts and iCloud accounts for my larger files.
Good shout, but a time-saving tip too: If the write part of the test suddenly drops to a *very* low rate compared tro before, you've probably passed the boundary of the real flash capacity of the device. In this case note when the speed started dropping out; The real capacity in MB or GB is likely to be the last power-of-2 value around or before the point of slowdown. 👍 Once it starts going agonisingly slow, let it create a few more *.h2w test files, stop the write, then run the read test. The real and fake capacity will thus be ascertained far quicker than by enduring the days and days duration of a full fake test. 😇
This is at least a 20 year old scam. eBay sometimes even sends out scam warnings with flash drive sales as they were the first to catch on. A 2gb flash drive fake formatted to be at least 50 times bigger makes the $3 price tag make sense (and relatively unusable in 2024)
Hey, I caught something at 1:28 about the micro SD cards. It looks like you ordered 2 128gb cards, as underneath the arrow it says "X2" meaning you ordered 2 of some capacity, we can only guess you ordered 2 128gb. Maybe you ordered 2x128gb because the 256gb option was out of stock at the time? Just a thought
The x2 shown there is because I ordered x2 256GB cards. It’s not part of the actual listing photo. I’m looking at exactly what I ordered right now and it was for x2 256GB cards $3 each. So yeah even worse actually, they didn’t give me 2 128GB to add to 256 - they just straight up gave me the wrong cards
@@devnight Yeah and the listing is completely gone now lol, it seems that whenever a listing is deactivated quickly after a purchase on temu, they were trying to scam everyone
There the comment I was looking for. I was thinking that, anything I buy including Hard drives. memory sticks, memory cards, any memory goes through that. If it fails I want the money back, guess what my TEMU 64gb card did, pass or fail. Not a massive big card but was only a few pounds. New member, stuck the app on the phone, It failed, money back. A cheap drone like the lies build by people that left their big greedy nasty drone company, you know the stupid made up people adverts. That was unflyable, went first time it was used at the park. I can do drones, was not me. 2 TEMU things, money back on both, items in the bin or 25m up a tree at a park edge.
I’m pretty sure you could burn half life 2 to a CD faster than it took to transfer the game to the 4tb drive. How is it actually that slow. Why does Temu sell so much eWaste
Um i have a 64 gb flash drive for 7 euros and it doesnt seem to install games either even my 256 gb flash drive for 50 euros wont install steam games,i tried converting even to NTFS from FAT32 and it still did little better but still wouldnt download even a 500 mb game,so the Temu drives not terrible you should re test and try to fill the drive and see the storage you get.I read online flash drives are NOT for steam downloads,just for pics videos etci did buy an external disk for my steam games for 31 euros 500 gb hdd worth it!
What brand of drives? 64GB for €7,- seems awfully cheap even today. They're typically around £12,- here in the UK for a bog-standard model, and they're one of few things *not* affected by the Brexit tax that's pushed food and electricity prices high enough to make the Matterhorn seem like a molehill... 🏔💷💩 If I was installing games onto a flash drive, I'd opt for a performance-oriented model (Sandisk Extreme USB 3,1 or similar) and formatting it NTFS as the very first thing to be done with it. NTFS is the better choice for a Steam key by far, but remember that bus clutter will also slow down USB performance. 🐌 If you have a USB port on a different controller (e.g: A spare host port built into a PCI card) that can be set aside specifically for use with flash drives that need high access speeds, that would be best. Otherwise, try to make sure no other USB devices (Particularly keyboards and mice, many which still employ USB 1,1) are communicating over the same controller at the same time. 👍 Finally: If you happen to be/bought it in France, that 64GB drive of yours is probably fake. France is extraordinarily expensive when it comes to flash media (Some kind of media/copyright tax, I think) and it's the only place I've ever found buying a 4GB SD card costing me more than the TGV journey from Valence to Marseilles I'd taken two days before... 💾🇫🇷💸
They just make the drive seem bigger by maybe using some software, to fake the file size, i suspect even dragging a file on their thats around 1tb it would allow you but it would dissapear into the void
Whatever they are doing, it's quite the interesting business model lol. Don't they know they're gonna get a return request from almost everyone once people figure out the drives are basically unusable? Or maybe they're just expecting people to not care since the drives are so cheap
@@SmokinSilicon They're modifying the firmware on the chip, and Windows reports it as that size because the USB is reporting that as it's size. What happens when it's overwritten is that the file table is still there, and Windows thinks it is still there and so does the drive, but it's just a NULL file so when you open it it shows nothing, or does nothing, or if it wasn't completely overwritten itll show a choppy mess or nothing aswell. Computer clan has a better explanation: ua-cam.com/video/UjVvlaCGGhA/v-deo.html
@@SmokinSilicon They get away with it because most people don't copy enough data to the drive to make it crap out until after the return period has expired. And the listings are flooded with fake reviews, so the inexperienced user might think they were doing something wrong, if so many other people said the drive worked perfectly for them. Also since it's so cheap, most people would rather just take the loss than going through the hassle of the return/refund process, which is often quite difficult on these sites.
I learned THE ZON THE BAY EXPRESS scammers , can change some code MAKE A 16GB to say 4TB maybe THE EGG but MICRO CENTER ONLY LEGIT 4TB maybe $200-$300 but it's real! But a NVMe $250 for 4th gen $350 5th gen in an enclosure via USB-C $20ish for a USB-A, USB-C TO USB-C OR THUNDERBOLT whichever PC, MAC, LINUX, other to get better speeds. Remeber an ipod cable 30 pin fot phone or pod but with "FIREWIRE" what's that besides a cool look in speed? As fast as USB-A 3.0?
lmao temu is a scam kinda like that deal dash get a ps5 for 50 cents would demand a refund or buy the same 1 from amazon and send it back saying it didnt work=free monday back
A “real” 4TB flash drive goes for $400, while this Temu 4TB flash drive goes for $15… makes sense right?? 😂
My worry would be paying $400 only to discover it was a fake!
15 likes and 1 reply? let me fix that
Makes as much sense as a Chocolate Tea Pot
I didn't even know there already were real 4TB flash drives.
But even if these bad things break so soon, you can still use them to relieve stress.
They have 8tb ones but you have to be Bezos to afford them 😂
@@unnamed715 I bought a bunch of 1TB NVMe SSDs last year during a *big* slump in SSD pricing. Take a bunch of those and a multi-slot array, even a _poorer-than-poor_ bloke like me can have a 16TB flash drive... 😇
(Though admittedly; I'm more one for buying cheap-ass 500GB HDDs from secondhand shops and carrying _those_ around. They're so cheap because no other fc🇬🇧er wants them, they retain data for longer (Less bit-rot) _and_ 4TB of WD Blues gives you a *lot* more free weight training compared to four thin slices of ultralight PCB... 💪💯😉)
Give it about 3 years and the 4tb drive will be $30.
This video reminds me of the time my mom bought a “10TB” flash drive for $20 to store her photos. We lost so many family photos. Later, she got Amazon Photos, which is a much better way to store your photos. Moral of the story, DON’T BUY LARGE FLASH DRIVES FOR $20!!!
Cloud storage sucks. Literally just get a 32 or 64GB thumb drive for like a tenner and that'll work no issues. If you want to be extra meticulous, get a couple of them and make backup copies that you can store in other places. I have no idea why anyone would think they'd need more than that for family photos, let alone even close to a single TB.
And yes, cloud storage sucks. Besides the "cloud" being just someone else's PC, you have to continuously pay for it and all it takes is Amazon saying you broke the ToS (they don't have to elaborate) and guess what, all your shit's gone. Can't log in anymore and your access to "your" files is gone.
@ After seeing this reply, I asked my mom how much storage she had used on Amazon Photos. Apparently, she had used multiple terabytes for her photos alone! She also has over 16 gigabytes in videos. The amount of time it would take to download and move all of the photos to a flash drive is insane. Plus, Amazon Photos comes with a Prime subscription, so it was a no-brainer for her. While, yes, I would say that for most things, local storage is better, for terabytes worth of files, it’s probably best to use cloud storage. I personally use the free versions of multiple Google Drive accounts and iCloud accounts for my larger files.
Wait that's wild 😂 do you remember where she got this "10TB" flash drive from?
@@SmokinSilicon eBay, probably. The site is *chock full* of UKCA-certified storage media... 💾🇬🇧💩😉
you should consider cutting the usb drives open. since chances are they're just an SD card inside, and that's always interesting to find out.
You can just use h2testw in order to find out the real capacity of the drive.
Good shout, but a time-saving tip too: If the write part of the test suddenly drops to a *very* low rate compared tro before, you've probably passed the boundary of the real flash capacity of the device. In this case note when the speed started dropping out; The real capacity in MB or GB is likely to be the last power-of-2 value around or before the point of slowdown. 👍
Once it starts going agonisingly slow, let it create a few more *.h2w test files, stop the write, then run the read test. The real and fake capacity will thus be ascertained far quicker than by enduring the days and days duration of a full fake test. 😇
This is at least a 20 year old scam. eBay sometimes even sends out scam warnings with flash drive sales as they were the first to catch on. A 2gb flash drive fake formatted to be at least 50 times bigger makes the $3 price tag make sense (and relatively unusable in 2024)
Hey, I caught something at 1:28 about the micro SD cards.
It looks like you ordered 2 128gb cards, as underneath the arrow it says "X2" meaning you ordered 2 of some capacity, we can only guess you ordered 2 128gb.
Maybe you ordered 2x128gb because the 256gb option was out of stock at the time? Just a thought
The x2 shown there is because I ordered x2 256GB cards. It’s not part of the actual listing photo. I’m looking at exactly what I ordered right now and it was for x2 256GB cards $3 each. So yeah even worse actually, they didn’t give me 2 128GB to add to 256 - they just straight up gave me the wrong cards
@@SmokinSilicon Dang, that's unfortunate. That's the main issue though with a lot of these sellers, very unreliable.
@@devnight Yeah and the listing is completely gone now lol, it seems that whenever a listing is deactivated quickly after a purchase on temu, they were trying to scam everyone
try testing the drive using h2testw or validrive later
There the comment I was looking for. I was thinking that, anything I buy including Hard drives. memory sticks, memory cards, any memory goes through that. If it fails I want the money back, guess what my TEMU 64gb card did, pass or fail. Not a massive big card but was only a few pounds. New member, stuck the app on the phone, It failed, money back. A cheap drone like the lies build by people that left their big greedy nasty drone company, you know the stupid made up people adverts. That was unflyable, went first time it was used at the park. I can do drones, was not me. 2 TEMU things, money back on both, items in the bin or 25m up a tree at a park edge.
There's also a program called FakeFlashTest.
I was literally gonna comment this... there's no way you're gonna find the limit just by copying file by file. you gotta do it how you should.
Ironic the ad right after this video was a TEMU ad...
Selling 2,000,000 TB flash drives for just $3
for the samsung one in the beginning, i pullled the exact same sd card out of a 7 year old tablet, so
I'd be wary of plugging any of these into my computer.
A _Rubber Ducky_ would be *so* easy to integrate into one of these things... 🔓
That’s why you would never get fake flash storage
I’m pretty sure you could burn half life 2 to a CD faster than it took to transfer the game to the 4tb drive. How is it actually that slow. Why does Temu sell so much eWaste
I got real 64gb sd card for $1 new user deal from aliexpress still works 2 years latter
Um i have a 64 gb flash drive for 7 euros and it doesnt seem to install games either even my 256 gb flash drive for 50 euros wont install steam games,i tried converting even to NTFS from FAT32 and it still did little better but still wouldnt download even a 500 mb game,so the Temu drives not terrible you should re test and try to fill the drive and see the storage you get.I read online flash drives are NOT for steam downloads,just for pics videos etci did buy an external disk for my steam games for 31 euros 500 gb hdd worth it!
What brand of drives? 64GB for €7,- seems awfully cheap even today. They're typically around £12,- here in the UK for a bog-standard model, and they're one of few things *not* affected by the Brexit tax that's pushed food and electricity prices high enough to make the Matterhorn seem like a molehill... 🏔💷💩
If I was installing games onto a flash drive, I'd opt for a performance-oriented model (Sandisk Extreme USB 3,1 or similar) and formatting it NTFS as the very first thing to be done with it. NTFS is the better choice for a Steam key by far, but remember that bus clutter will also slow down USB performance. 🐌
If you have a USB port on a different controller (e.g: A spare host port built into a PCI card) that can be set aside specifically for use with flash drives that need high access speeds, that would be best. Otherwise, try to make sure no other USB devices (Particularly keyboards and mice, many which still employ USB 1,1) are communicating over the same controller at the same time. 👍
Finally: If you happen to be/bought it in France, that 64GB drive of yours is probably fake. France is extraordinarily expensive when it comes to flash media (Some kind of media/copyright tax, I think) and it's the only place I've ever found buying a 4GB SD card costing me more than the TGV journey from Valence to Marseilles I'd taken two days before... 💾🇫🇷💸
They just make the drive seem bigger by maybe using some software, to fake the file size, i suspect even dragging a file on their thats around 1tb it would allow you but it would dissapear into the void
Whatever they are doing, it's quite the interesting business model lol. Don't they know they're gonna get a return request from almost everyone once people figure out the drives are basically unusable? Or maybe they're just expecting people to not care since the drives are so cheap
@@SmokinSilicon They're modifying the firmware on the chip, and Windows reports it as that size because the USB is reporting that as it's size. What happens when it's overwritten is that the file table is still there, and Windows thinks it is still there and so does the drive, but it's just a NULL file so when you open it it shows nothing, or does nothing, or if it wasn't completely overwritten itll show a choppy mess or nothing aswell.
Computer clan has a better explanation:
ua-cam.com/video/UjVvlaCGGhA/v-deo.html
@@SmokinSilicon They get away with it because most people don't copy enough data to the drive to make it crap out until after the return period has expired. And the listings are flooded with fake reviews, so the inexperienced user might think they were doing something wrong, if so many other people said the drive worked perfectly for them. Also since it's so cheap, most people would rather just take the loss than going through the hassle of the return/refund process, which is often quite difficult on these sites.
very cool video man i love this type of content
i got scamed on amazon from some sd card it is sad
I got a temu ad before this video
So the Statue of Liberty devalued the stick by $4
I wonder how much the real thing devalued the USA when France handed it over 😂😂
If want best price gonto sandisk or wwstern digitail
The biggest scam on Temu, Amazon, WalMart, Ebay...
Oh no, the adapters for the micro sd cards are so bad that they don't even work lol
I learned THE ZON THE BAY EXPRESS scammers , can change some code MAKE A 16GB to say 4TB maybe THE EGG but MICRO CENTER ONLY LEGIT 4TB maybe $200-$300 but it's real! But a NVMe $250 for 4th gen $350 5th gen in an enclosure via USB-C $20ish for a USB-A, USB-C TO USB-C OR THUNDERBOLT whichever PC, MAC, LINUX, other to get better speeds. Remeber an ipod cable 30 pin fot phone or pod but with "FIREWIRE" what's that besides a cool look in speed? As fast as USB-A 3.0?
You don't buy or sign up for anything YT promotes.
You creators are hopeless with the volume levelling, its beyond me.
I bought a 200 TB thumbdrive for 100 USD!!!!!
But to be fair you can get scammed on Ebay as well
Annoying A.F
I was watching one of your videos and a new video appeared lol
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lmao temu is a scam
kinda like that deal dash get a ps5 for 50 cents
would demand a refund
or buy the same 1 from amazon and send it back saying it didnt work=free monday back
I presume that would be the _„PlayStation 5 at home?...“_ 😉
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