Yeah there are "external SATA" style USB solid state drives that are fake too. A colleague discovered this after someone we knew purchased a few and all of them

Yeah there are "external SATA" style USB solid state drives that are fake too. A colleague discovered this after someone we knew purchased a few and all of them failed within 10 minutes, and were extremely slow. Opening one up explained it all- it was a cheap "USB flash drive" PCB/internals hooked to a USB A 2.0 to USB-C conversion board (so that it looked faster/better than it is). Amusingly, they used masking tape to hold some pieces together inside the drive. Just, completely made for fraudulent purposes. The brand is made up, the "storefront" name changes periodically (was VHSGUUDS CO. and now CSGARH CO.,LT), and the listings are super generic.