USB drives on Amazon have 20% complaint rate about faked storage

Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit

Counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro SSD passes basic checks but performs worse than USB 2.0 drive

A Reddit user purchased a counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro SSD that passed basic system checks but performed extremely poorly, running slower tha

USB flash drives lose data over time due to NAND flash degradation — here's how to protect your files

USB flash drives use NAND flash memory which degrades over time due to charge leakage, especially when not powered on regularly. Data stored

rsync.net Discovers Maestro Technology Sold Used SSDs as New on Amazon

rsync.net discovered that Maestro Technology sold them used SSD drives as new when purchasing four SSDs from Amazon for use in a ZFS metadat

Corrupt file system?

4 Signs It's Time to Replace Your Old USB Drive

This article discusses four key signs that indicate it's time to replace an old USB drive: slow transfer speeds, frequent errors or corrupti