by Tdarcos » Sun Mar 02, 2025 1:07 pm
A youtube add for this website:
https://us.outdoor-mall.de/products/160 ... 3ZEALw_wcB offers a 16TB SSD hard drive for $49. I am all but convinced this is a scam, and maybe it's bait and switch, in that it is just the aluminum case and it's not clear that's what they meant. Or maybe it's fraud, that it actually has an SSD, but maybe it's a 1GB that fraudulently pretends to be a 16TB.
I mean, a little over six months ago (back when I actually had any money), I bought a 12TB mechanical (magnetic platter) hard drive on Amazon for the ridiculously low price of about $150.00 (I just checked, it's an Avolution Pro 5X and was $119.99; now they don't sell that new anymore, the Pro-Z 12tb is $149.99). Got it home, plugged it in to the power supply, plugged in the USB cable, and it has slightly over 12 billion bytes of storage, 12x1000^3, not 12x1024^3, but this what they advertised; memory manufacturers quote space in multiples of 1024, hard drive manufacturers quote capacity in multiples of 1000; this is not deceptive because their ads and packaging all state they mean a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 and a terabyte is 1,000,000,000,000. I have had nothing but flawless service from it.
I mean, to me it clearly appears to be a scam. If I wasn't broke I'd buy one and, discovering I was correct, file a chargeback with my credit card and possibly report them to the FTC for fraudulent and deceptive marketing. (I presume that this is after contacting "customer service" does not provide a speedy response.) I've seen these too often; when a price offered is excessively low compared with everyone else, it's usually a big red flag. Often it's either a case with nothing inside or it's an SSD that massively overstates its capacity.
As far as I can tell, at this time SSDs are more expensive than magnetic mechanical drives. To sell one for 1/3 the price strains all credibility.
A youtube add for this website: https://us.outdoor-mall.de/products/16068186901441465633541690?utm_source=ad&utm_medium=google&utm_origin=shopline&utm_campaign=32748&utm_content=22125408424&adset_id=175028468364&utm_term=729005408318&aatid=6980810444&gad_source=2&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoJC-BhCSARIsAPhdfSgzPK4hHo01CYkB7mOeing5YclGc42dUJVxEJ5zWkc_lh6ycAjWCjEaAt3ZEALw_wcB offers a 16TB SSD hard drive for $49. I am all but convinced this is a scam, and maybe it's bait and switch, in that it is just the aluminum case and it's not clear that's what they meant. Or maybe it's fraud, that it actually has an SSD, but maybe it's a 1GB that fraudulently pretends to be a 16TB.
I mean, a little over six months ago (back when I actually had any money), I bought a 12TB mechanical (magnetic platter) hard drive on Amazon for the ridiculously low price of about $150.00 (I just checked, it's an Avolution Pro 5X and was $119.99; now they don't sell that new anymore, the Pro-Z 12tb is $149.99). Got it home, plugged it in to the power supply, plugged in the USB cable, and it has slightly over 12 billion bytes of storage, 12x1000^3, not 12x1024^3, but this what they advertised; memory manufacturers quote space in multiples of 1024, hard drive manufacturers quote capacity in multiples of 1000; this is not deceptive because their ads and packaging all state they mean a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 and a terabyte is 1,000,000,000,000. I have had nothing but flawless service from it.
I mean, to me it clearly appears to be a scam. If I wasn't broke I'd buy one and, discovering I was correct, file a chargeback with my credit card and possibly report them to the FTC for fraudulent and deceptive marketing. (I presume that this is after contacting "customer service" does not provide a speedy response.) I've seen these too often; when a price offered is excessively low compared with everyone else, it's usually a big red flag. Often it's either a case with nothing inside or it's an SSD that massively overstates its capacity.
As far as I can tell, at this time SSDs are more expensive than magnetic mechanical drives. To sell one for 1/3 the price strains all credibility.