Funniy Reviews 8

Spotted this deal on Facebook, 2 x 16TB SSD USB sticks for $81 with free delivery. Normally, I would do some research but sadly I thought this was a hot deal.

The items took about 3 weeks to arrive. I formatted the drives, Windows indicated they had a capacity of 15.2TB, but as mentioned in a couple of reviews here, this was a false reading with software manipulation making the capacity much larger than it actually is. Slow transfer speeds and once the actual physical capacity was reached, got the "drive no longer available".

Contacted the Company's support section, initially they said I can pick another product of equal value but no refund available. When I chose a replacement product, they offered a special discount if I chose a third product. I said I didn't want a third product and that's when they advised postage will then have to be paid for $45. They did not want the USB drives back at all. I reiterated that I wanted a refund and they dropped the delivery charge to $35 but I again declined their generous offer. I said I would write a review warning others of this scam and they then offered me two choices - accept a voucher code as a discount on my next purchase or accept 15% refund of my $81. I just ignored!

The product is a scam and the company is dodgy AF!

16 TB SSD Hard Drive is a piece of crap. It does not work, is only 156gb -Very Slow TF Speed and corrupts and overwrites itself. I feel scammed and violated, Waste of money - very bad purchase. Get stuffed Funniy You are scum.

I have received this device, and it has been found to be a FRAUDULENT DEVICE.

This drive is a dangerous hardware counterfeit (scam drive).

Why This Drive is Fake
Impossible Capacity: The images show Windows detecting a capacity of 15.2 TB (15,625 GB). True 16 TB portable M.2 SSDs do not exist in consumer form factors; commercial enterprise drives of this size cost thousands of dollars and require dedicated wall power.
Hacked Firmware: Fraudulent sellers use hacked controller chips to force Windows to read an impossible number. Physically, the drive likely contains a cheap $5 flash memory chip or micro-SD card with a real capacity of only 32 GB or 64 GB.
Virtual Disk Manager Error: The error "The request is not supported" pops up because the hacked controller chip inside the enclosure cannot handle native Windows Disk Management commands like resizing or formatting standard volume clusters.
What is Happening to Your Data
Once your files exceeded the true microscopic capacity of the physical chip, the drive began doing one of two things:
Loop Overwriting: Saving new files directly on top of older files, instantly destroying them.
Ghost Directory Mapping: Creating empty directory indexes (the folders you see) without writing any underlying binary data (the reason PDFs cannot load and folders are empty).
Immediate Action Items
🛑 Stop using the drive immediately. Do not use it for backups, as it will continue to silently corrupt every file you send to it.
💻 Verify your original data: Check your laptop's internal hard drive. If you used "Cut and Paste" instead of "Copy and Paste," your original files may be permanently lost unless you run data recovery software on your laptop's internal drive.
↩️ Demand a refund: Open a dispute with the marketplace where you purchased this drive (e.g., Amazon, eBay, AliExpress). Upload these exact screenshots showing the "15.2 TB" capacity as ironclad proof of a counterfeit product.

I want to cancel my purchase : order # SLUS11837 , payment of $67.32 ; purchase date -5/3/26

Definitely seems to good to be true, the advert is American but this is from China.

This scam company offers 16TB external SSD through ads appearing on Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon for low prices £32.50 GBP ($30–$80 usd). This is a widespread scam.
These drives are actually 64GB–120GB micro SD cards or USB flash drives with manipulated firmware, causing computers to falsely report 16TB capacity.
They often corrupt data once capacity is reached, offering abysmal speeds.
How the Scam Works: The drive's controller is programmed to report a fake 16TB capacity to your operating system. When you copy files over the actual capacity (e.g., over 120GB), the drive loops over itself, deleting older files to make room, leading to massive data loss.
Performance: These drives are incredibly slow, with tested read/write speeds of only 15 MB/s, which is 30 times slower than legitimate SSDs.
I purchased one myself as part of my 'drive' to expose fake products and I conducted a teardown which revealed that in my case, the device contained only a small, cheap Micro SD card inserted into a USB converter!
IT DID NOT CONTAIN 16TB of NAND flash storage!!!!!
These drives are often sold both fake branded and unbranded and listed through misleading ads on Facebook, YouTube, and sometimes via third-party sellers on Amazon.
Do not purchase these items, a 16TB of solid-state storage typically costs £400-£500, NOT £32.50.
It's a misleading illegal scam.

They claim to have a 1000MB/s (1GB/s) through a USB port. Why 1GB/s?? If they are using USB 3.0 this technology has a 5 Gbps transfer rate, so why not advertise their device as having a 5 Gbps transfer rate? USB 2.0 only has 480 Mbps transfer rate, so they would have to be using USB 3.0 or higher. Their advertisement makes no sense. Plus 16 TB for only $44.00. Come on. It would cost twice that much to produce it. Then there is the standard mark up costs for shipping and distribution. Only a gullible fool would believe this crap.

16TB hard drive is a total scam you have up pay over £1000 for just 10TB SSD so it’s all false.
once they start having negative reviews they change their name on YouTube and YouTube allows them because of the advert revenue just remember 99% of YouTube videos adverts are total scams
AVOID