I bought a $26.00 16TB SSD From Wish.com and It Should Not Be Opened

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[StefanoAgrotis]

The most expensive part in this was the Type-C port.

[arctic_void]

Fun fact. At 15 MB/s it would take around 12 days to fill up 15.2TB of space.

[KOSMOSA]

looks like they are finally making drives even jay has a hard time getting into, the next one will be just a massive epoxy blob with a USB port on it.

[._Murphy]

To be fair, they're not false advertising!
It says SDUD, that means Solid Dud! That's what it really is! 🤗

[italixgaming]

That was a SOLID drive. Which means it is hard to get inside.

[PhilCouling]

It’s a thrill to see a master craftsman at work. The precision with which you employed those sophisticated disassembly tools was a marvel to watch. 😂🤣

[alexcasanova]

The crazy thing to me is, I’d gladly pay $26 for a USB-C to 3x Micro-SD reader! That thing would be a godsend for my workflow, and I know people would pay good money for those if people would just be honest about what they’re selling!

[pokerandphilosophy]

7:10 I'm afraid that when you open it up like that, it may void the warrantee.

[xjet]

I can't believe you actually wrecked a 16TB SSD drive just to make this video (LOL).

[rasowa]

I learned my lesson years ago when I bought 512GB flash drive from Alliexpress. After exceeding 8GB all files were getting corrupted. Apparently the 512GB was overlapping the same 8GB of actual storage over and over again.
Never again I will buy any electronics from Wish or Aliexpress.

[Scylithen]

$26
100% bargain.
I'll take as many as I can fit in this Toyota Hilux which has dual 180mm AA cannons on the back of it which I also bought from wish.

[grahamroberts]

I think you may want to invest in a Dremel with cutting disk…or a really good first aid kit…

[whyeven]

5:20

Hard drives are much faster than this actually. Most desktop 7200RPM drives are close to 120-130MB/s (megabytes) and laptop ones closer to 90-100MB/s.

[trublgrl]

Considering you could not even retrieve a file from it, I imagine that unbranded SD card was one that did not pass even the lowest bin quality control at the factory. It has just enough integrity to register as an SD in windows and report a false capacity.
This is e-waste made from e-waste.

[wizdude]

The part of this video which scared me the most was when he was hammering the drive and I was thinking “he’s going to scratch the crap out of that beautiful table”. 😮

[johndemore]

buying from wish
leaves you wishing
you hadn't gotten
ripped off

[hojnikb]

Pretty standard stuff on cheap memory devices from China. If something seems cheap ($/GB wise) it's probably fake.
They do this on all sorts of storage devices. Flash drives and SD cards are the most common one. SSDs not so much.

What they do is they take the cheapeast lowest bin flash chips (usually few 10GB in real size) pair it with the cheapst and slowest flash controller and upload a modified firmware, so it reports higher capacity to the OS. It sorta works, but your data will either get overwritten or just ignored when you pass the real size.

A neat little trick you can do (only works with usb drives, sd cards don't work) is to use manufacturs production tools (available for most of these drives) and reinitialize them with correct memory size. Usually pretty straightfoward to do. Congratulations, you just got a pretty usable (albeit slow) flash drive.

Now for the real trick of the day, when you're armed with this knowledge: You can sorta scam the seller back. Pick an obviously fake flash drive, order it and once you receive it, test the capacity. If by some miracle, it checks out, great, you just scored a cheap flash drive. If not, ask for a refund. They usually let you keep the drive. Bam, free flash drive!

[Guido_XL]

More than a year ago, I bought an 8 TB drive from Wish, very similarly looking. The first thing I noticed after having it attached to my PC was that it unfolded itself as 4 separate entities of 2 TB. There was no way I could initialise these 4 disks into 1.
Then, I opened the case, which went without much hassle, as this case allowed for proper opening. To my surprise, it contained a PCB with a USB-hub, to which 4 sticks were attached. I could simply pry the sticks out of their USB-sockets.
Since then, I use those sticks (short ones without plastic casing, but still quite usable) as USB-sticks. The 2 TB is actually working rather well, after I had initialised them properly. The problem that I had with the hub situation, as the manufacturer had intended it, was that it did not work that well, rendering the 8 TB almost useless. As separate sticks though, I'm quite happy with the package deal.
So, yes, it was kind of a scam, but with a happy ending for me. Other customers that may not have been so resourceful as I was here, may have been disappointed though, and rightly so.

[TheLikesofMee]

“ Need to get the hammer out” proceeds to get the 1840s Amish woodworking clamp out. Lol love it bruh

[WabbitHole]

I wish there was a way to shut down these scams.
I was concerned you were going to hurt yourself opening it up.
Actually a funny video.
Keep uploading!