Snapshot Fail Yes Hardware, Fake Drive Capacity

[Member Xunzi_23]

User/owner reported:
Creating a snapshot failed. antiX 22 fully updated.
Reported drive space was more than enough. Rebooted, repeated the process.
Failed drive full.

What when where purchased size, what mattered when and where. Ebay Size 1TB
few days old Payment PP. Claimed patriot.

Ok we take a look, drive looks different to Patriot, red corner on label,
anyway unimportant. Put it in an adapter, inform, all data will be destroyed !!.

no straight answer, refuse to assist…

Later the drive is plugged in to an adapter, we do a write test, tool F3.
the drive has an actual capacity around 120GB.

Take a screenshot, witness sign tell the owner to ask for return and refund.

Beware, test drives SD Cards, USB Sticks no matter where you buy. Many fakes are
outwardly indiscernible from original product.
Dont buy cheap from China. You may be able to return but postage cost is so high
you might as well just put the purchase down to experience.
Most Chinese dealers are small family businesses and hard working honest. They just
sell on from another seller. Others scam everyone. Only Chinese scam, think again.
If there is quick money to be made plenty of takers.

Be careful on amazing river site, check where the seller is located and if he is sending
from within your country. My recent experience with the most customer friendly company on
earth has been just the opposite. Seems the new motto is make a fast buck and forget the rest.

Report scams, the dealers are still selling weeks later. Often under same name.

F3 is in the repos, how: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
The tool will test ssd and nvme, sometimes a little tricky, easiest is external adapter. If
other internal drives are present be careful. Data is overwritten until the drive is full.

• This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Xunzi_23.
• This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Xunzi_23.

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