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Where do you buy ssd from Samsung 870 evo to be specifically?
I was looking for Samsung 870 evo 2tb and I haven't found samsung directly selling it. Everyone has their own prices and some people on ebay are selling for it less than 120$ whereby regular price goes around 150$ The difference might the country of origin like China or Korea but there is so much confusion. The newegg also third party supplying it. I am just curious where do people get the genuine stuff from?
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As you seem to be in the UK:
https://www.ebuyer.com/1139124-samsung-870-evo-2tb-2-5-inch-internal-ssd-mz-77e2t0b-eu
or
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/samsung-2tb-870-evo-ssd-2.5-sata-6gbps-64-layer-3d-v-nand-solid-state-drive-hd-24h-sa.html (pre-order, probably means out of stock)
Personally, for stuff like SSDs, I'd only buy from these two companies. Amazon and Aliexpress and the like are always always going to be fake.
I do have a server in the UK, but I am now searching for an option in the USA.
So, as an example, this drive sold by Samsung themselves on Amazon is fake?
I don't believe you.
On topic of UK and SSD's.. is there 'good' site for enterprise ones ? I usually go to scan.co.uk but they are either on back-order or allow you to purchase only 1pc or similar.. There was box.co.uk but they dead. Sometimes I really struggle to find for example 5x S4520 of 960GB or Micron Pro line etc..
Yes it can be fake. It is sold by Amazon (fulfilled and shipped by amazon) and not by Samsung, Amazon can buy fake products (unintentionally) or put fake 'unopened' returns in the same box and sell it. Or another million ways scammers found to beat the system.
This has been going on for years and years.
An issue is that they apparently commingle items from different sources in the same bin. So an EVO direct from Samsung and sold by Amazon would go in the same bin as one from Joe's Genuine computer parts.
Yeah totally agree with you, this isnt even some miniscule or low percentage thing, it literally happens all the time in every sector not only tech. There's stories about it every week in the news and reddit and twitter.
Maybe from the Samsung storefront on Amazon it'll be OK. Personally, I wouldn't risk it. I've had several fake drives from Amazon, even from reputable looking stores on there.
I only trust online shops that I know specialise in computer hardware, have their own websites with legitimate contact details clearly displayed, and who shift enough volume that they make sure they have a good supply chain.
I've seen enough stalls in Shenzhen to know how easy it is to procure fakes on demand for whatever real/fake capacity and price point you want. There are places where you can rock up and get 500 drives labelled as whatever you like, with convincing labels and sealed in blister packs with cardboard inlays within a couple of hours. All the high-quality brands are faked to some degree, and Samsung Evo drives are one of the most counterfeited ranges imaginable, because they command such a high price. Some of the perceived high quality brands, e.g. SanDisk are even worse as they're produced under licence - so in those cases you can get drives with hacked firmwares but otherwise the genuine (but smaller) drive, with genuine packaging all sealed up by someone who's authorised to distribute them. It's so easy to find these fake drives, that you need to be really, really sure of your supply chain to not end up with them despite your best efforts.
Usually you'll get something that seems to work, maybe it's 1TB with a hacked firmware that presents itself as 2TB, and it can be quite a long time before you've written 1TB to it and it's corrupted something else, possibly corrupting the remapping tables and cause it to hard fail itself.
Maybe the Samsung store is safe to order from, but as others have said - buying from Amazon is always a risk. You have pickers who have the minimum wage Amazon can get away with paying, and it's not uncommon for packages to be marked as dispatched but go missing because the employee has stolen the contents. Or for the package to be sent, but missing the item or have the wrong item, etc. Or maybe they have something they know is a fake that they switch out. Sadly, all of this does all happen.
OK. I've bought dozens of drives on Amazon over the last 10 years and have never gotten a fake. And if those WD Black drives that have lasted 6+ years are fake, they're better made.
But I'm often naive. So what's the fakery? If I get a new drive - they're always in sealed WD or Samsung or whatever boxes - I run smartctl on it. If it said it 5,000 hours or something, I'd send it back. If I opened it up and it was a 250GB drive when I ordered 8TB, I'd send it back. etc.
How does one convincingly fake storage media?
I've also never received fake disks from Amazon. My last disk purchase from Amazon.de was this Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 2TB on Black Friday for 138,30 euros.
However, I definitely wouldn't risk it with AliExpress, no matter how good the price might be.
WDs are made in malysias which are genuine..already have good price no need to copy them...problem comes to Samsung drive which have premium price attached to it due to high TBW...and due to manufacturing plant in China there are number of pricing options available for this specific 870 evo model. So I thinks it just about luck if you buy it from any online store since I see no official Samsung supplier.
Lambda-tek is good for getting new enterprise parts as a consumer
US - Newegg, Microcenter, B&H Photo, Bestbuy -- all will be reputable
I have yet to get a fake drive when 'Sold by' is the manufacture or Amazon and fulfilled by either of them, especially going through the manufacture's store front. A friend got a fake before but it was from some random "keyboard smash" seller. He also got scammed once but if you looked at the pics or read the description, it was clearly a fake (think like that nvme 1080 pro meme/thing that looks like a samsung drive at quick glance). I still laugh at him to this day for that one.
Official distributor store: https://www.tokopedia.com/ssgofficial/samsung-ssd-870-evo-250gb-500gb-1tb-2-5-sata-iii-internal-ssd-sata3-ssd-only-1tb-c816a
certainly not for USA.
I can buy from Sweden and ship it to you for a big fee if you’re interested in that
https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/330868-Samsung-870-EVO-250GB-MZ-77E250BEU
I can't help but in Vietnam, you can buy Samsung SSD very easy and cheap.
Nah, thanks. I just ordered it from random people on eBay. I will review each disk individually, and my experience will guide through it.