along with SSD As prices continue to rise, not only do a large number of fake products appear on the market, but they also become more and more authentic. For users who are not very computer savvy, they may mistakenly think that they are buying defective products, but they are actually fake.
Recently on the foreign Reddit website, a netizen shared that he bought Samsung 990 PRO 2 TB SSD product, plug it into the computer and Windows The device information and even the CrystalDiskInfo looked normal, but the speed just couldn’t come up. I found out through Samsung’s official tools that I had purchased a fake.
Fake SSD disguised as Samsung 990 PRO, even Windows system tools can fool it
Samsung 990 PRO 2 TB SSD is a high-end consumer-grade NVMe solid-state drive that features extremely high-speed transmission performance, top-level control and cache design, and is mainly targeted at e-sports players, content creators and high-performance computer users. According to official specifications, the 2 TB model can sequentially read up to 7,450 MB/s and write up to 6,900 MB/s. This SSD costs nearly 10,000 yuan in Taiwan.
A Reddit user u/xox-lover said that the 2 TB Samsung 990 PRO is mostly priced at more than 30,000 rupees (approximately $327) in India, but he has a friend who is a computer peripheral dealer and only sells it to him for 19,000 rupees (approximately $207). He has bought other genuine products from him in the past, so he didn’t think twice about paying for it this time.
When I first plugged it into the computer, it worked normally. Windows also recognized it as a Samsung 990 PRO 2TB NVMe solid-state drive. Even the disk management showed that there was no problem and there were no red flags. And displayed through CrystalDiskInfo:
- Interface: NVMe Express
- Transmission mode: PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4
- Firmware: 0B2QJXD7 (very old, but the netizen didn’t think much about it at the time)
- Health status: Good
He thought everything was normal, but after he started copying large files, the reading speed was only about 20 MB/s and the writing speed was 9 to 10 MB/s, which was obviously a problem. Then I used CrystalDiskMark to measure the speed, and the results were the same: 22 MB/s for sequential reading and 10 MB/s for writing, which is slower than most USB 2.0 flash drives:
He then tried updating the driver, checking the BIOS (PCIe settings were correct), re-plugging the SSD, etc., but nothing improved.
Finally, I decided to download the official Samsung Magician tool to scan, and the result showed that the SSD was fake:
But the good news is that since the seller is a friend he knows, he has already entered into the process of refunding or replacing it with genuine products, and there is no need to swallow this loss. He also warned others to be wary of unusually cheap SSDs, which are likely to be fake.
So, in the current era of NAND supply shortages and rising memory prices, never think that you are so lucky and can buy it at a price far lower than what is sold on the market. 99.9% of it is fake.
Beware of Fake Samsung 990 PRO SSDs
byu/xox-lover inIndianGaming
Source: KOCPC Chinese