Well yeah, if you take a look at the "group photo" (https://www.grc.com/validrive/drives.jpg https://www.grc.com/validrive/drives.jpg), you can see that all of

Well yeah, if you take a look at the "group photo" (https://www.grc.com/validrive/drives.jpg https://www.grc.com/validrive/drives.jpg), you can see that all of them are either no-name, have "brands" like "Blanbok+" and "Dianww", and one of them is even a borderline counterfeit SanDisk product (the SD card). I suspect that if he had bought a (non-counterfeit) product from brands such as Kingston or SanDisk, he would have got the actual advertised capacity (although probably not as cheaply).