Digital stores are, in many cases, giants with hundreds of thousands of products and controlling them all is almost impossible. This leaves room for counterfeit products that only seek to deceive the user. Again, this happened on AliExpress, where they were marketed Solid State Drives who try to scam the user and make him believe that he is purchasing a unit of Samsung what is it FAKE.
Some time ago we already reported that there were a large number of fake copies of Samsung M.2 SSDs on AliExpress. There are also fake copies of Kingston RAM and products from other major manufacturers. These products generally cost a fraction of the price of legitimate units, making them very tempting.
Quite elaborate deception
According to the product sheet, these SSD 1080 Pro
The first factor of suspicion with this “1080 Pro” unit lies in the name of the unit. It simulates or copies the typical screen printing of Samsung devices, but the name of this famous South Korean brand does not appear. All Samsung SSDs have the brand name in the upper right corner, as well as the company website and full company name in the upper left corner.
M.2 SATA SSDs have a read and write speed limited to 500-550 MB/s, much lower than the 5,000-6,000 MB/s of an M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD. These latest data do not correspond to the stated speed of up to 15.8 GB/s indicated by the manufacturer and the fact is that only an M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD can achieve these speeds and with difficulty. The unit that comes closest to these speeds is the Crucial T705 2TB, which costs 402 dollars and reaches up to 14.5 GB/s.
Performance far from what was promised
The Quasarzone media acquired one of these units and carried out various performance tests on it. Unsurprisingly, the performance offered by this device is far from that promised by the seller. The “1080 Pro” unit offers reading speed from up to 1,180 MB/s and an writing speed of 649 MB/s.
They compared this device to a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB and it seems pretty ridiculous. The South Korean company’s real SSD offers up to 6,420 MB/s reading and up to 4,610 MB/s writing.
This media outlet conducted a full investigation into the unit. The “1080 Pro” has a NAND chip with the silkscreen TK1YL4BAAH2, which, unsurprisingly, is fake, since no information appears on Google. Using SSD diagnostic and monitoring software, they learned more about the unit.
This unit is based on a memory 96-capacity 3D NAND TLC (B27A) manufactured by Intel. Use a controller Realtek RTS5765/66 which only offers support for PCIe 3.0. Additionally, this memory is the DRAM-less type, which lacks DRAM memory to function as a cache.
You should know that in addition to all this, the SSD does not have a capacity of 4 TB. If you tried to write that much information, you would encounter different problems. What might happen is that you start overwriting information and losing data.
We do not fully understand the need to try to scam the user. The performance tests aren’t too bad for a PCIe 3.0 drive and it’s a good price. If they sold it at that price with real capacity, it might even be a purchase option for a cheap mini PC or a Raspberry Pi 5. Sure, but to be honest they probably wouldn’t sell any units.
