Amazon selling obviously fake SD cards / flash disks is baffling. It’s super easy to spot and fake disks cost users data, so you’d think they’d take that seriously.
https://a.co/d/auXcxrZ ($29 for 1TB as their “overall pick”)
https://a.co/d/auXcxrZ ($29 for 1TB as their “overall pick”)
They have providence, maintaining custody from manufacturer to store shelf.
Unlike (e.g.) Amazon, where all vendors' have "identical" items thrown into one big "for sale" bin.
That's called provenance, not providence.
I don't think they can stem the tide.
To ebay's credit, their support is very good once you are on the "press button, get called seconds later by a human" tier, but I also make ebay a lot of money, so I'm not sure how common it is to receive that level of service.
I have the non-technical people of my life insist on a terabyte for everything. One of them bought an iPad Pro just to have a terabyte of space. After 8 years of their prior iPad, they had used up all the space (64gb I think) and wanted to be sure they wouldn’t run out.
Improvements in cameras etc are causing the sizes of the photos and videos that people take to hugely increase in size. The prior ipad you spoke of might have only recorded 720p video, while the new Pro likely does at least 4k. If they use their ipad to record video of family events, that 1tb might represent the same usage as the old one.
It's more often the case that the device does present the advertised capacity, but with a massive "black hole" in the middle where any writes are silently discarded.
Depending on your filesystem, you don't need to write much data at all before you're likely to hit this "black hole" and start losing data.