nothing special here, just a 16GB card got marked as 64GB, this kind of scam has been there for ages. You got hit by dishonest marketing BS from big brands all the time as well, buying from reliable brand and its recommended (overpriced) channel doesn't solve the problem, it seem to become the standard way of doing business in storage (what is the likelihood to get a fake RAM/CPU/GPU to this extent?). I think that is actually the most scary part.
I was lately trying to buy a new SSD, surely you want a NVMe SSD, so I picked up the Pro version of this top brand SSD, as the spec is the best of the best you can find on the market. Did a simple test, fsync performance is actually worse than the 2 years old SATA SSD from the same brand and that SATA was a EVO module. Sure, they didn't advertise fsync performance, but do you think it is fair not to mention/disclose/report such very poor fsync performance when it is actually slower than their own 2 years old product?
I didn't waste my time to argue with anyone, got it refunded and bought the EVO version of the NVMe SSD as I thought I just forget about the fsync performance and save that $100 difference. Got the fancy EVO NVMe SSD, did a sequential write test, the throughput performance dropped like 40% after certain amount of writes. Carefully checked the product spec, there is some text on the box written in some size 2 font basically telling people to expect such performance drop as there is some cache style design there.
Well, at least I got this very good random IOPS spec, right? Did some tests myself, guess what? The advertised IOPS performance is only true when running in situations considered as rare or even abnormal for such consumer grade SSD - you need a very long IO queue depth. In plain English, if you just buy this consumer grade SSD and use it in a consumer setting, you are not going to get the advertised performance.
Fake or marketing BS? If the whole idea is to fool me to pay for their over stated stuff, then what is the difference?
The issue is that with these cards they're not just branded wrong, they often present themselves as being bigger than they actually are - so your OS sees it as being 64GB when it's only 16GB, for example.
Were it just a branding thing it wouldn't - from a technical standpoint - be quite so bad, other than you know, the intentional lying...
I was lately trying to buy a new SSD, surely you want a NVMe SSD, so I picked up the Pro version of this top brand SSD, as the spec is the best of the best you can find on the market. Did a simple test, fsync performance is actually worse than the 2 years old SATA SSD from the same brand and that SATA was a EVO module. Sure, they didn't advertise fsync performance, but do you think it is fair not to mention/disclose/report such very poor fsync performance when it is actually slower than their own 2 years old product?
I didn't waste my time to argue with anyone, got it refunded and bought the EVO version of the NVMe SSD as I thought I just forget about the fsync performance and save that $100 difference. Got the fancy EVO NVMe SSD, did a sequential write test, the throughput performance dropped like 40% after certain amount of writes. Carefully checked the product spec, there is some text on the box written in some size 2 font basically telling people to expect such performance drop as there is some cache style design there.
Well, at least I got this very good random IOPS spec, right? Did some tests myself, guess what? The advertised IOPS performance is only true when running in situations considered as rare or even abnormal for such consumer grade SSD - you need a very long IO queue depth. In plain English, if you just buy this consumer grade SSD and use it in a consumer setting, you are not going to get the advertised performance.
Fake or marketing BS? If the whole idea is to fool me to pay for their over stated stuff, then what is the difference?