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What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

2T, USB3.0, SSD for $28, when everyone else charges 170 for the same
thing and 90 for a spinner that size.

Only one rating, 5 stars, but with no reviews.

I know Walmart does not sell luxury goods or top of the line stuff, but
this price is sort of amazing.

Note that the brand is Black. When I google for reviews all I get is WD
Black. When I including -WD in the search terms, I still get only
Western Digital, because of the reasonable way google works. If it
can't find what you ask for, it gives you the next closest thing.
Nonetheless I haven't found any comments on the Black brand and can't
figure out search terms that would do that without having to reject 100
pages about WD.

It's clear to me they chose the name Black for this very reason. Does
WD have a worthy trademark claim against them?

OTOH, how bad could it be? Will it explode? Emit poison gas? Wouldn't
it be useful for your 3rd level backup,the one you lend to your
shiftless son-in-law, so as to not lend out your other two 170 dollars
backup drives?
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On 2026-02-16 16:56, micky wrote:

OTOH, how bad could it be? Will it explode? Emit poison gas? Wouldn't
it be useful for your 3rd level backup,the one you lend to your
shiftless son-in-law, so as to not lend out your other two 170 dollars
backup drives?

Not actually 2T, but 500G emulating more by having one storage position
serve four faked storage positions. Or not being a hard disk at all, but
flash media with limited life.

Although a reputable merchant would not sell this.
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micky wrote:

What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD- USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583? wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

Let it make its mind up, is it an SSD or a hard drive?

"Sold and shipped by Wankang Technology Co. LTD"

Think I'd give it swerve ...


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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:33:40 +0000, Andy
Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

micky wrote:

What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-
USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583?
wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

Let it make its mind up, is it an SSD or a hard drive?

I didn't even notice that. It's a breath mint. It's a candy mint. Maybe
this is two kinds of drive in one!! LOL

"Sold and shipped by Wankang Technology Co. LTD"

Never heard of them. I like the stuff made in Taiwan, by real
Americans. Well, at least they are anti-communist and that's close.

Think I'd give it swerve ...

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:30:53 +0100, "Carlos
E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-02-16 16:56, micky wrote:

OTOH, how bad could it be? Will it explode? Emit poison gas? Wouldn't
it be useful for your 3rd level backup,the one you lend to your
shiftless son-in-law, so as to not lend out your other two 170 dollars
backup drives?

Not actually 2T, but 500G emulating more by having one storage position >serve four faked storage positions.

Wow. Very complicated. Sounds like false advertising.

A related discussion, started by someone not as naive as I seem to be:
Ooops, not a discussion at all, only the original question is helpful
(the two replies add nothing) but it does give an example of Newegg
labeling something as 500GB even when it seems to behave like 2T. Sort
of the opposite of Walmart. https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1l7229i/500gb_ssd_inexplicably_behaves_as_a_2tb_drive/

Or not being a hard disk at all, but
flash media with limited life.

Although a reputable merchant would not sell this.

I see now, after Andy pointed it out, "Sold and shipped by Wankang
Technology Co. LTD". They may have learned from Amazon to sell things
that never enters a Wamart warehouse.
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On 2/16/2026 4:56 PM, micky wrote:

What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Counterfeit-SSDs-and-memory-cards-be-careful-when-buying-last-minute-gifts-10217971.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/1acsoi9/after_seeing_some_posts_about_fake_ssds_just/

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On Mon, 2/16/2026 10:56 AM, micky wrote:

What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

2T, USB3.0, SSD for $28, when everyone else charges 170 for the same
thing and 90 for a spinner that size.

Only one rating, 5 stars, but with no reviews.

I know Walmart does not sell luxury goods or top of the line stuff, but
this price is sort of amazing.

Note that the brand is Black. When I google for reviews all I get is WD Black. When I including -WD in the search terms, I still get only
Western Digital, because of the reasonable way google works. If it
can't find what you ask for, it gives you the next closest thing.
Nonetheless I haven't found any comments on the Black brand and can't
figure out search terms that would do that without having to reject 100
pages about WD.

It's clear to me they chose the name Black for this very reason. Does
WD have a worthy trademark claim against them?

OTOH, how bad could it be? Will it explode? Emit poison gas? Wouldn't
it be useful for your 3rd level backup,the one you lend to your
shiftless son-in-law, so as to not lend out your other two 170 dollars
backup drives?

Sigh. The honorable fraud-mobile.

Also available in a very becoming shiny red aluminum finish.

This one is sold out.

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/1-Terabyte-TB-976GB-External-SSD-Solid-State-Hard-Backup-Drive-20mbps-Type-C-to-USB-3-1-Metal-High-Speed/5Q8Y93IYSRNR

So that's the complete set then. They've done 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB and
they all say "Portable SSD" on the outside. One claims to run
at 1GB/sec, the other runs at 20MB/sec. (The actual benchmark for the fraud-mobile is 7.81MB/sec as inside the plastic, is an SD card and
a genesys adapter chip.)

*******

WesternDigital has their own shop. Fullfillment (bubble wrap) is
done by a retailer, in the country of interest. WesternDigital staff
are not particularly involved.

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/hdd/internal-hdd

Paul
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On 17/02/2026 2:56 am, micky wrote:

What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Here in Australia, with my SeaMonkey Suite, when I click that link, I initially get a full web-page which is quickly replaced by a "Sorry!
We're having technical issues, ...." page.
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:40:00 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Here in Australia, with my SeaMonkey Suite, when I click that link, I initially get a full web-page which is quickly replaced by a "Sorry!
We're having technical issues, ...." page.

It works in Tor coming out of the rabbit hole in Germany.
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Daniel70 wrote:

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Works in the UK (no VPN shenanigans) for some reason it chose the
Sacramento store for me, unless that's near to micky?

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On 2026-02-17 08:31, Andy Burns wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Works in the UK (no VPN shenanigans) for some reason it chose the
Sacramento store for me, unless that's near to micky?

It works for me. Also Sacramento location. But suggests that Spanish is available :-)
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On 17/02/2026 3:47 pm, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:40:00 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Here in Australia, with my SeaMonkey Suite, when I click that link, I
initially get a full web-page which is quickly replaced by a "Sorry!
We're having technical issues, ...." page.

It works in Tor coming out of the rabbit hole in Germany.

Yeap, looks like it might just be SeaMonkey as pasting the link into my FireFox brought up the page .... which then stayed up.
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On Tue, 2/17/2026 6:11 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 17/02/2026 3:47 pm, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:40:00 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Here in Australia, with my SeaMonkey Suite, when I click that link, I
initially get a full web-page which is quickly replaced by a "Sorry!
We're having technical issues, ...." page.

It works in Tor coming out of the rabbit hole in Germany.

Yeap, looks like it might just be SeaMonkey as pasting the link into my FireFox brought up the page .... which then stayed up.

Use a browser with a working Javascript.

And also, trim the link.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583

Firefox returns: https://www.walmart.com/blocked?url=

MSEdge returns: Web page, with no Robots Challenge present

For some reason, MSEdge wants to do Pickup or delivery? to Sacramento, 95829 Superstore.
That's a hell of a long walk for me, what computation did they do to work that out ???
Why didn't they just deliver it to the new lunar base ? In bubble wrap. UPS must have next day by now, to the new lunar base.

Oops! We're up to 16TB now. It's a new era of fraud-mobile.
Come one, come all, ride the fraud-mobile. $49.99
Must be good, I have several 16TB USB sticks I got for $54.32 . They're rather long.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/LCNDF-16-Large-Capacity-BLACK-External-SSD-USB-3-0Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19523506067

3 out of 5 stars review
Verified Purchase

"Description was somewhat misleading." <=== see? not entirely a loss! Aluminum casing is good.

1 out of 5 stars review
Verified Purchase

"Garbage
This is NOT a SSD. It's a cheap flash drive in a case with a chip to make it
look like a SSD to a computer. Read/Write speeds are ridiculous. >7Mbs <=== 7.81MB/sec
"

Good times.

Paul


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On Tue, 2/17/2026 5:42 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2026-02-17 08:31, Andy Burns wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Works in the UK (no VPN shenanigans) for some reason it chose the Sacramento store for me, unless that's near to micky?

It works for me. Also Sacramento location. But suggests that Spanish is available :-)

We're all in Sacramento.

Perhaps an annexation happened while we were asleep ?
I hope this doesn't come with tariffs.

Here, have a 16TB one.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/LCNDF-16-Large-Capacity-BLACK-External-SSD-USB-3-0Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19523506067

But personally, I'm holding out for even bigger ones, at $59.99 each.
And if you're listening, fraudsters, I really like the *red* aluminum ones. That seals the deal, I like the red ones.

Paul

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On 2026-02-17 15:58, Paul wrote:

But personally, I'm holding out for even bigger ones, at $59.99 each.
And if you're listening, fraudsters, I really like the*red* aluminum ones. That seals the deal, I like the red ones.

What I don't understand is how an actual place sells this garbage. Not
living over the pond, I assumed walmart was more or less reliable.

I have not hit this class of garbage in Amazon. Maybe I have been lucky.
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Daniel70 wrote:

On 17/02/2026 2:56 am, micky wrote:

What do you think of this:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Black-2-T-B-Large-Capacity-External-SSD-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-Typec-Computer-Laptop/19130550583?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102551805

Is that page Geo-limited or something??

Here in Australia, with my SeaMonkey Suite, when I click that link, I initially get a full web-page which is quickly replaced by a "Sorry!
We're having technical issues, ...." page.

In SM, turning off JS allows viewing of WalMart pages.
Just viewing, that's all.


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On Tue, 2/17/2026 1:52 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2026-02-17 15:58, Paul wrote:

But personally, I'm holding out for even bigger ones, at $59.99 each.
And if you're listening, fraudsters, I really like the*red* aluminum ones. >> That seals the deal, I like the red ones.

What I don't understand is how an actual place sells this garbage. Not living over the pond, I assumed walmart was more or less reliable.

I have not hit this class of garbage in Amazon. Maybe I have been lucky.

the Walmart web site is for their "bazaar business". I don't
think the listings on the site, have anything at all to do with
the brick&mortar business at street level. Sure, the Chinese
seller could deliver to Sacramento, where you would walk to the
store and pick up the item, but that does not imply the
item was "in stock" at the store. The store does not
treat that as an "inventory". Returns would likely
be taken up with the seller, and not by them.

Walmart is reliable at street level, but not so much on
that bazaar site of theirs. Lots of businesses run bazaar
selling on the side. Some now, have a tick box for "local stock"
so you can tell the difference between items they retail
and the items they have nothing to do with.

And yes, Amazon has instances of those fraud-mobiles as well.
It's the same bazaar selling model, mixed with some stock
which is in Amazon warehouses.

Paul
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Carlos E. R. wrote:

What I don't understand is how an actual place sells this garbage. Not living over the pond, I assumed walmart was more or less reliable.

I have not hit this class of garbage in Amazon. Maybe I have been lucky.

I don't think you can walk into Walmart and buy one, but surprised
Walmart allow their name to be "used" by the scammers, similar junk
exists on Amazon Marketplace.
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Paul wrote:

Lots of businesses run bazaar selling on the side. Some now, have a
tick box for "local stock" so you can tell the difference between
items they retail and the items they have nothing to do with.

I wish that B&Q (the UK version of an orange DIY store) had a tickbox to exclude non-stock items; I also wish Toolstation had a tickbox to
exclude Click-and-Collect items that are only available tomorrow
afternoon, rather than in 10 minutes time ...
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On 2026-02-18 10:30, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 2/17/2026 1:52 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2026-02-17 15:58, Paul wrote:

But personally, I'm holding out for even bigger ones, at $59.99 each.
And if you're listening, fraudsters, I really like the*red* aluminum ones. >>> That seals the deal, I like the red ones.

What I don't understand is how an actual place sells this garbage. Not living over the pond, I assumed walmart was more or less reliable.

I have not hit this class of garbage in Amazon. Maybe I have been lucky.

the Walmart web site is for their "bazaar business". I don't
think the listings on the site, have anything at all to do with
the brick&mortar business at street level. Sure, the Chinese
seller could deliver to Sacramento, where you would walk to the
store and pick up the item, but that does not imply the
item was "in stock" at the store. The store does not
treat that as an "inventory". Returns would likely
be taken up with the seller, and not by them.

Walmart is reliable at street level, but not so much on
that bazaar site of theirs. Lots of businesses run bazaar
selling on the side. Some now, have a tick box for "local stock"
so you can tell the difference between items they retail
and the items they have nothing to do with.

And yes, Amazon has instances of those fraud-mobiles as well.
It's the same bazaar selling model, mixed with some stock
which is in Amazon warehouses.

Maybe you can detect the stuff by careful reading of the clients reports.
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Carlos E.R.
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