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@springyzone wrote:

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@pjs04 wrote:

Yes I fully expected the drives I purchased to be fake, but you always hope for a bargain arising from some distributor's fire sale.

 

A Best Match search for "Seagate 5TB" gave me about 10 listings with drive prices that would suggest the drives are fake. Some are supposedly by domestic sellers while other are from sellers in China.  All are using stock advertising images, but there appear to be no images showing higher profile 4TB and 5TB drive images.

 

As an example item 186099264717 offers Seagate USB 3.0 portable drives ranging from 1TB for $42.99, up to 5TB for $49.99.

 

There's no obvious way for a casual buyer to know which drives are real. And lots of sellers offering drives at similar price points might lead buyers to think these prices are now legitimately "in the ballpark".

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Put it back together. I know technically, you are supposed to return an item totally untampered with, but technically, a seller is supposed to provide exactly what is described in the ad too.

Just say it doesn't have the stated capacity. With luck, you should win your claim and the seller will have to refund you.

 

 

 

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Nope cant do that,  as OP says it shows up on windows as having the correct and he is only making an assumption that it is not the correct capacity based on the 128 in the part number of the SD card.   And the only way he would know that is by having opened the device.  Now I am sure you are not suggesting that OP tell a porky Pie.

OP suspected it was fake, still went ahead and purchased it,  opened it up.  OP deserves to loose their money