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Sometimes I wonder if I've been taken. The only external SSDs I've bought from Amazon were brand name Samsungs, sold-by-and-shipped-from Amazon, but both have
by rootusrootus 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if I've been taken. The only external SSDs I've bought from Amazon were brand name Samsungs, sold-by-and-shipped-from Amazon, but both have been flakey and one failed outright. I should open them up and see if they're just really good counterfeits.
- bragr 4y ago>I should open them up and see if they're just really good counterfeits They could be legit and failed QA in the factory (flaky after all) but they "fell off a truck" on the way to the electronics recycler and ended up for sale. Semi-counterfeit "3rd shift" products that are made off the books on the official line, often with lower or nonexistent QA, are common too. tl;dr counterfeiting is complicated and just opening it up might not give you a reliable answer
- mardifoufs 4y agoSamsung external SSDs are known to have had issues IIRC.
- zuminator 4y agoSame happened to me with a couple of Sammy m.2s. Thought it was bad luck or bad case airflow, now I wonder myself.