I Accidentally Bought a Fake Samsung 990 Pro: Here's How I Found Out

but it is almost certainly not genuine 990 pro samsung nvme this one is fake this is my macbook it has one terabyte of storage m3 macbook and it keeps running out of storage because of these agents so you know right now i am using an application called clean my mac and i'm trying to remove a bunch of garbage from it to increase my storage i was able to gain a few hundred gb's by removing a bunch of stuff but i thought maybe it's time to add something so i ordered 990 pro samsung nvme it's been very good and this one is actually used so it's not new don't not that rich so this and this ugreen enclosure and what i'm going to do is now i'm going to use this one that attaches to my macbook sitting right there attached to this samsung 49 inch odyssey g9 monitor and i am we are going to use it continuously to increase my storage so let's check it out let's get going so if i am able to peel it off this is actually not uh apparently this is way better memory than this even this enclosure can handle so even uh this enclosure will not give you the speed that you're looking for that this can deliver so it's that good of nvme storage and if i like it that person actually has a two terabyte sitting with him so maybe i will get that one too so since these are used and i will check its health and we'll see hopefully i will be able to get it on in a good condition so this is the enclosure made by Ugreen Ugreen is actually a brand that i personally like i mean Ugreen and Baseus these are the brands i personally really like usb4 m2 thunderbolt 3 thunderbolt 4 support what else is here so this is our enclosure very pretty looking actually and it has this rubber shield on it to protect it and i think it has a fan as well this is the type c or with different fans to give out the heat and the idea is that since i want to use it continuously so it needs to be in a good condition what is inside this accessory box let's check it out there seems to be a cable here that's weird why is it oh sorry i thought it was white but it's not i was going to curse them for making it white because the device is darker shade but i don't have what it looks like it is not so they have sent a screwdriver that's really nice of them because i was looking at its screws and I thought hmm how am I going to unscrew it I need to use my MacBook screwdriver I should find a place to put it okay we have screwdriver what is inside it you have this okay and what is this okay I think it's double tape if I'm right yes so that you can paste it somewhere I don't think I need it pasting right now so let's leave it what is this type a to type C cable in case you have that I have the MacBook which has Type C so I I'm good with this one the Type C and I since they sent this one I've been going to use this one to achieve the maximum possible speed so this is what came with it along with double tape and let's bring out there also came documentation now let's remove this cover so that we can install the NVMe this is my first time actually using the NVMe I usually just prefer what is installed but since the dawn of agentic coding and agentic work they leave garbage like crazy on every two to three days I have to run cleaners to clean their garbage their work trees and things no matter how much I ask them hey don't leave garbage behind they still leave garbage behind so this issue only appeared after agentic development so I mean I just I cleared the one terabyte no sorry one terabyte 78 GBs of cloud code garbage from my system so you can imagine and that was truly garbage not some work left behind so as you can see the fan here and we will go there it is metal metal metal very good quality at least looks that way or feels that way not looks okay which part goes where now because this is my first time using it so I'm okay I guess I need to remove this one like this no probably need to remove it completely so they sent one replacement for it this one in case you lose it so this will it will go like this come on i'm not doing it correctly or what now it is not coming out and people are going to go crazy in the comment section previously i've made a few videos on my trimmer and people are you don't even know what they are and you're making videos but i actually enjoy it when people leave comments like this so how is it going to go like this like this i think i got it i think so for those who are watching i actually i mean i can read the documentation to get it right and i will read it if i don't get it right but for some reason i always like to try things without looking at them i find even that's the whole theme of this channel gadget running without because i find it i like it the idea to explore things without having pre-learned them i just like it we all have our phones and i like the idea to explore things i have some nails so let's use them i think that should be it right okay okay before i do anything let's test it out let's use this type C to type C and let's connect it to my macbook well then let's see what is i have this 2.5 giga hertz ethernet adapter but we will go remove it wi-fi will work okay and and we have it here new volume nothing has been popping up okay let's see what does the get info says if it appears that is it appears on this edge and as you can see we have one tv and it is using windows nt file system so we i will probably format it now we need to check the health and usually you will use some certain softwares but we don't need to we can just use claude here so let's use the let me adjust it let's launch claude here you guys can see it as soon as it launches I would ask it to check the health there is an NVMe storage attached look at its health isn't it fun now whatever it needs to do it will just do it on its own let's see what it is all right so I had to pause the video because it was taking like forever but here is what my cloud says actually the drive reports as healthy but it is almost certainly not genuine Samsung 990 Pro and it gives a reason actually is the drive's controller as PCI that is Realtek a budget controller with no DRAM cache a real 990 Pro uses Samsung's own controller which would show Samsung's own controller ID so apparently as for Claude this one is fake I don't know let's even if it is fake let's ask it to do some tests just so we can see here let's run some tests see how good that it is then if you know if it is fake so let's see how good or bad it is I mean it is fake this and its reason sounds solid because it is saying that it's using a budget controller instead of its own controller and while the real one uses its own controllers so that's the sound reason actually that's one of the reasons for buying these kind of NVMe SSDs says it is NTFS Windows specific so we need to format it to run test I need to erase it okay look yes formatted so that it comes in to this macOS compatible format it will take some time so I'm going to pause the video and come back as we have the claims back so here is it first 40 GB it went about 680 MBps per second which is way less than what it should be delivering and then after that it settled for just 55 MB per second and that's slower than even the USB 2.0 flash stick so way slow way slow so way worse than one would expect it so i'm going to return it that's what it was a bad experience but enclosure is still there and i have a good relationship with the seller so i will be able to return that but the excitement went in the bin because i wanted to make a video and show you how to do it and i know i still have to wait for return and new to manage my storage but anyway it was still a good video making experience so let me know about your experience too and take care bye