16tb extl SSD

[silverfoxcc]

Keep seeing ads pop up for this item and at ONLY £32.00

Anyone got one or should i steer clear? but atv32.00 GBP is only 8 Starbuck coffees!

[Harpoon]

Do you really need to ask if it's remotely genuine?

At that price what would you put on it that you were happy to lose?

[silverfoxcc]

The reason i ask is that i am also wary about the offers TEMU do yet many oeopke rate them i was 99% of steering clear BUT it could have been kosher

[Captain_Morgan]

You’ll be rite, buy one.

[Terminator X]

I'd always go to the manufacture to buy. I tried an eBay special once and it turned out to be much smaller than advertised but somehow they allowed it to overwite itself for larger files; I didn't realize at the time but I used it to backup my hard drive and it could have been a disaster if I really did need to copy the files back.

TX.

[shtu]

To put some context to this, here's 16TB of HDD based external storage,

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/16tb-lacie-sthj160...

[VeeTenM]

buy one and let us know how it went when trying to transfer 16TB of data .... lol

[Ham_and_Jam]

silverfoxcc said:

Keep seeing ads pop up for this item and at ONLY £32.00

Anyone got one or should i steer clear? but atv32.00 GBP is only 8 Starbuck coffees!

Is this your idea of a wind up?

Great follow up to the previous thread of why can’t I transfer some money using someone elses account.

[silverfoxcc]

The reason i ask is that i am also wary about the offers TEMU do yet many oeople rate them i was 99% of steering clear BUT it could have been kosher

Edited by silverfoxcc on Thursday 7th May 08:37

[RizzoTheRat]

shtu said:

To put some context to this, here's 16TB of HDD based external storage,

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/16tb-lacie-sthj160...

That's a much fancier twin drive RAID setup though. A single disk 16TB USB hard drive is more like £350-400 for a WD or Seagate.

There seem to be several companies you've never heard of selling multi-TB USB flash drives for not much money, but if you look at the offerings from more reputable companies (Sandisk/Kingston/etc) they're charging over £100 for a 1TB flash drive. The cheap ones will probably either have nothing that that amount of storage available, be very slow, or probably both.

[mmm-five]

silverfoxcc said:

The reason i ask is that i am also wary about the offers TEMU do yet many oeople rate them i was 99% of steering clear BUT it could have been kosher

Real people rate them, or millions of bots rate them?

Yes, there will be some bargains on Temu/AliExpress, but that will be where the majority of the cost of a product to a UK customer from a UK retailer (not a drop-shipper) is all the margins between each component manufacturer, marketer, middle-man, HMRC, import duties, etc. (items like a 30p t-shirt that sells for £900 in Balenciaga, so can be sold for 50p direct).

When it comes down to something that is expensive to make in the first place, the margins are finer...and of you see a bargain here it tends to be a scam/fake.

See:


There is probably the odd item in there that's okay, but the contract market price for 1TB MLC NAND flash chips is about $100 each with MOQs of 1000 units...so unless they've 'found' some NAND chips down the back of their sofa, there's no way they can even buy all the components to make one for less than $1600.

If you really, really want a 16TB SSD then here's an enterprise-grade 16TB drive for just $15000 (used to be c$4000 last year, before the AI spiral of doom)...
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/16...

Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 7th May 11:13

[dapprman]

If it is the one I think it is and it was on YouTube then it is a scam. I've now seen about 4 or 5 near identical versions from different sellers and all with e FOMO 'only X left' with the amount being different each time.
I would them but alas YouTube seem to think that people using their TV app never complain.

[butchstewie]

You aren't getting a 16TB SSD for that price.

Run don't walk.

[eeLee]

Buy it
Run this on it: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
Report back how many Gb storage it has

[Big Nanas]

silverfoxcc said:

The reason i ask is that i am also wary about the offers TEMU do yet many oeople rate them i was 99% of steering clear BUT it could have been kosher

Edited by silverfoxcc on Thursday 7th May 08:37

Of course it's not real, you can't possibly be this naive.

A popular Sandisk external SSD is around the £180 mark, so how on earth would you think this is real?

Honestly.

[vaud]

eeLee said:

Buy it
Run this on it: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
Report back how many Gb storage it has

And report how much it actually has and not what it reports to have, proven by a number of cycles using all of the space

[.:ian:.]

Captain_Morgan said:

You ll be rite, buy one.

Buy 512 and you will have 16TB of storage. Maybe

[GuyW]

silverfoxcc said:

The reason i ask is that i am also wary about the offers TEMU do yet many oeople rate them i was 99% of steering clear BUT it could have been kosher

Edited by silverfoxcc on Thursday 7th May 08:37

No, absolutely under zero circumstances would this be legit.