3 ms·
I got a couple of outright counterfeit 12TB Ironwolf drives from "AlamCh Trading Inc" on Amazon a couple of months ago. Slipped up and didn't notice that I was
by Hizonner 2y ago
I got a couple of outright counterfeit 12TB Ironwolf drives from "AlamCh Trading Inc" on Amazon a couple of months ago. Slipped up and didn't notice that I was buying from an obviously suspicious seller. They did refund them... after being appropriately threatened.
- nness 2y agoCuriously, how did you identify them as counterfeit? (maybe they were much quieter than normal)
- Hizonner 2y agoThey were physically quite different from some other supposedly "identical" drives I'd just ordered from another source; the actual castings were different (and looked inferior to me). They were also packaged differently (and more cheaply). The real drives have numbered "anti-counterfeit" labels. Each label has a QR code that takes you to a Seagate site, which takes label number X, and tells you that they put that label on drive serial number Y. The fake drives had labels that looked the same, but took you to a generic Seagate support page, nothing specific to anti-counterfeiting. If you went to the real anti-counterfeiting site and entered the numbers from the fake labels, they came up as non-hits. Oh, and on edit, since naming names should go both ways: the "other source" was B&H, which is about as reputable as it's possible to get.