{"id":239116,"date":"2023-07-10T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=297230"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:43:54","slug":"buying-an-ssd-for-aliexpress-is-the-most-dangerous-thing-you-can-do-for-this-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/buying-an-ssd-for-aliexpress-is-the-most-dangerous-thing-you-can-do-for-this-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Twice Before Buying an SSD on AliExpress: Unveiling the Hidden Dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you grew up in Spain, chances are your father or mother would have told you the famous phrase <strong>&#8220;buying cheap ends up being expensive&#8221;<\/strong> at some point. And it&#8217;s true, when you browse websites like <strong>AliExpress <\/strong>and come across a suspiciously discounted item, there&#8217;s usually a catch. Whether it&#8217;s poor component quality, stolen goods, or outright counterfeits, something is often amiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s exactly what happened to a tech YouTuber named <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4q8SiZcllFA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">der8auer<\/a><\/strong>, who personally experienced the consequences of purchasing something at an unbelievably low price on AliExpress. One of his subscribers informed him that the popular Chinese e-commerce website was selling multiple units of a supposed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/this-will-be-the-samsung-galaxy-watch-6-filtered-to-the-complete-the-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samsung<\/a><\/strong> NVMe SSD for just 40 euros, which caught the techtuber&#8217;s attention, but also raised suspicions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed-Youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Got Scammed - Fake 4TB Samsung SSD from AliExpress\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4q8SiZcllFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And several things were off about this situation. The first is the price: <strong>NVMe SSDs are expensive<\/strong> (very expensive). Depending on the model, brand, and generation of the device, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/s?k=ssd+nvme+4tb&amp;crid=2S71JVXOQ7C0N&amp;sprefix=ssd+nvme%2Caps%2C116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">4TB NVMe drives rarely drop below 200 euros<\/a>, so a supposed Samsung offer for 40 euros is, at the very least, suspicious. But to make matters worse, the &#8220;Samsung 980 EVO&#8221; model featured in the offer <strong>doesn&#8217;t even exist in the brand&#8217;s catalog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once der8auer had the SSD in his hands, he began to investigate and quickly discovered that the SSD manufacturer <strong>had erased any trace of the controller chip<\/strong>. Later, he tested the device using various system information and benchmarking tools, and both Windows and CrystalDisk indicated that it allegedly had a capacity of 3.72TB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a grueling capacity testing process that took nearly 24 hours, der8auer confirmed that the supposed <strong>4TB Samsung SSD did not have the advertised capacity<\/strong> and, &#8220;at best,&#8221; it would be a 1TB SSD from a brand that, as one can deduce, is not Samsung. Indeed, der8auer had fallen victim to a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Some of the links added in the article are part of affiliate campaigns and may represent benefits for Softonic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A youtuber buys an SSD on sale in AliExpress and ends up verifying that he had been the victim of a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":239119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-239116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319205,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239116\/revisions\/319205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239116"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=239116"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=239116"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=239116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}