Windows 10: *Alert* Fake Cheap 2TB Flash Drives

Don't even think of buying a 2TB flash drive for under $2,000.

There are cheap fake 2TB thumb drives being offered on the internet with spoofed controllers.
Watch theis video from Gamers Nexus and here what Steve Burke say's.


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Published on Feb 25, 2017 Just a PSA: Don't buy "2TB" flash drives for $10. They're scams. Honestly, the fact that this was even ~10-12GB was impressive.

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Old Hard Drive Says "No Media" in Disk Management

Hi,

Failing or Fake drive:

"No Media" means the flash memory controller cannot communicate with the NAND flash memory on the drive. Because of this, it appears to the computer as an empty disk drive. This is usually caused by the NAND flash failing. To the computer, the drive is not
much different than a floppy or optical drive with no disk inserted.

As a result, it is not possible to access any data on the drive, nor is it possible to repartition or reformat the drive. Again, from the standpoint of the computer, there is no medium in the drive to be formatted or repartitioned.

It is also possible that the drive is fake and the cheap memory chip in the drive has failed. Drives failing in this manner will often show up as a storage device with 8MB capacity.

USB flash drive not working or is appearing as an empty disk drive, Disk Management reports "No Media" with 0 bytes size

 

how many times can I download Forza?

just getting a tiny small cheap SSD to hold the OS, and nothing more

all games and other stuff will be on a standard 2TB hard drive

 

This is nothing new. They've been on Ebay for years. I remember the first time I saw one of these about 10 years ago (then they were "only" 320GB flash drives), a friend had bought one and was gushing about the deal he got. I was skeptical. So, I proved it to him by copying a large DVD movie to the drive, then tried to play it again, and it didn't work.

Needless to say, my friend was pissed. He had bought like 100 of them...

These are really typically small (32MB or whatever is the cheapest they can find) drives that have their firmware modified to make them report that they're large (2TB), and they end up just looping over itself when you copy large files on them, so it looks like they are actually working, but you really only get the last bit of the file.