Anyone in the know knows that the capacity of an SSD of any type is equal to the sum of the capacity of all the flash memory chips it contains. Having a 30TB drive isn’t impossible, but it would require a drive of considerable size and cost beyond what is acceptable in the home market. That’s why if you see a 30TB SSD for $40, it’s a rip off. Of course, the trick may be to count bits as bytes and it is indeed 3.75 GB, but that is already a warning, since capacities are always given in powers of 2.
Beware of this 30TB SSD because it’s a huge scam
Those who have been deceived have not been deceived in capacity, but rather It’s not even an SSDbut it is a card with a double MicroSD card on it, that to top it off, they cannot be replaced because they are literally glued, and we are not saying this by saying, in the image below you can see the drops of the solidified glue.
Because what is better to forget the speeds of a classic SSD is that it does not even reach that of a SATA SSD. Worst of all? The real interface is not USB-C or 3.0, but it is USB 2.0so it’s not even faster than a hard drive, since transmits at 60 MB per second. Although this is not the only problem.
To all this it should be noted that to accentuate the scam, this device is generally sold copy the industrial design of another model published by a reliable brand. We specify that the selected image does not fit a Samsung T5 SSDeven if obviously the South Korean brand will not fail to commit a consumer scam of this caliber.
Ability tricked via firmware
The 30TB SSD scam doesn’t stop there, but its creators clearly intend to trick people they modified the firmware of the drive so that it has a much higher capacity than it does. 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 device or component is, its name and, if it is an SSD or of a hard disk. says capacity. The problem is that the operating system trusts the information given to it and displays two 15TB drives, but this is the product of fake firmware with a clear intention to deceive the unsuspecting buyer.
Now think about it, where have you seen 15TB type SD cards? Nowhere, by the way, will they ever exist due to the fact that memory always grows in multiples of 2, so we should be talking about 16 TB of capacity, but we have not yet seen a MicroSD of such capacity on the market. It’s more, those with the highest capacity that we can find in stores today are 1 TB.
With this we end, we hope we have been able to inform you clearly so that you can avoid this product and not be given a pig in the bag, in this case MicroSD for SSD.
