#thumbdrive

For those who were curious: This is a scam.

It's not an M.2 SSD, it's a USB flash drive inside.

It's not USB 3.1, it's USB 2.0.

The drives that claim to be absurdly high, like 2 terabytes, are actually 32gb with a controller chip telling the computer they're bigger. Result being that if you put on more than 32gb everything is corrupted because the previous data gets 'overlapped'.

And here's what it looks like inside:

A bare USB thumbdrive inside a USB-A to USB-C adaptor.

I suppose that if you had a large bare USB thumbdrive for whatever reason (someone stepped on your swag stick or USB button?) you could put it in here and have it protected, or if you like a pretty aluminum case, this is one way to go. I got mine for $5 at Habitat, thinking it actually was 2tb and/or an M.2 case. Actual size 32gb.

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