Redditor buys a 2TB Samsung 990 PRO SSD from a 'known local distributor contact' and gets scammed: SSD is flagged as ...
Counterfeit NVMe drives are no longer the obvious, badly-labeled scams most enthusiasts remember. A recent case involving a ...
This highly convincing Samsung 990 Pro SSD counterfeit turned out to be 99.7% slower than the real thing, barely scratching 20MB/s.
Fake SSDs used to be easy to catch. Operating systems or common diagnostic tools would quickly expose them as something other than what the sticker claimed.