Don't buy this 30TB external SSD, it's a huge scam!

A typical trick with hardware scams is to take advantage of people’s lack of knowledge for the deception. The product that we are going to warn you about this time has not yet come out on the European market, but we believe that it could do so sooner or later. That is why we have seen ourselves with the moral obligation to warn our readers about such a deception. If you see a 30 TB USB SSD, keep in mind that it is a scam.

Anyone with knowledge is aware that the capacity of an SSD, whatever its type, is equal to the sum of the capacity of all the flash memory chips inside it. Having a 30TB drive is not impossible, but it would require a drive of considerable size and cost above what is acceptable in the home market. That is why if you see a 30 TB SSD for 40 euros, it is a scam. Of course, it may be that the deception is to count the bits as bytes and it really is 3.75 GB, but this is already a warning, since the capacities are always given in powers of 2.

Don't buy this 30TB external SSD

Beware of this 30TB SSD as it is a huge scam

Those who have been victims of the deception have not been from the point of view of capacity, but it is not even an SSD unit , but rather it is a board with a double MicroSD card on it, which to top it off is not they can be replaced by the fact that they are literally glued, and we are not saying this by saying, in the image below you can see the dribbles of the solidified glue.

SSD 30 TB Estafa

For what we better forget about the speeds of a conventional SSD, it is that it does not even reach that of a SATA SSD. The worst of all? The actual interface isn’t USB-C or 3.0, it’s USB 2.0 , so it’s not even faster than a hard drive, transmitting at 60 MB per second . Although that is not the only problem.

To all this we must clarify that to accentuate the scam, this unit is usually sold copying the industrial design of some other model published by a reliable brand . We clarify that the featured image does not correspond to a Samsung T5 SSD , although obviously the South Korean brand will not fall short of committing a consumer scam of this caliber.

Faked capacity via firmware

The 30 TB SSD scam does not end there, but its creators in their clear intention to deceive people have modified the firmware of the unit so that it has a much higher capacity than it has . When you connect a device, it always has a ROM or read-only memory that is read by the PC and where the type of peripheral or component it is, its name and, if it is an SSD or a hard drive, is located. says capacity. The problem is that the operating system trusts the information it is given and shows two 15TB drives, but this is the product of fake firmware with a clear intention to deceive the unsuspecting buyer.

SSD 30 TB estafa

Now think about it, where have you seen SD cards of the type that are 15 TB? Nowhere, moreover, they will never exist due to the fact that memory always grows in multiples of 2, so we should talk about 16 TB of capacity, but we have not yet seen a MicroSD of such capacity on the market. What’s more, the ones with the highest capacity that we can find in stores today are 1 TB.

With this we finish, we hope that we have been able to inform you clearly so that you can avoid this product and that you are not given a pig in a poke, in this case MicroSD for SSD.