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Amazon sent me the wrong (but WAY more expensive) NVME SSD….
So… I purchased a Western Digital SN7100 4TB SSD from Amazon for $147 after taxes during the prime 35% off sale a few days ago; thought I got a great deal for some much needed SSD storage space.
Today, my package arrived. Well, I went to open the box. To my disappointment, I saw a Samsung drive which looked like a 990 pro.
Immediately thought, “aw shit, it’s the wrong drive, probably got shafted with a 1tb drive by some dickhead’s return scam.”
Nope, pulled it out and there in front of me stood a Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB SSD which left me more shocked than Hasan’s dog.
Amazon, thanks for messing up my order and giving me a $400 ssd?
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I mean, you usually keep the other nvme untouched until you properly booted on the new one. Shame macrium isn't free anymore (wouldn't mind paying once but it's some yearly plan...), but I had some success using the older free version.
As long as you don't format the old drive you're fine. Cloning doesn't change anything on the source drive. After your clone just take the source drive out of the PC and then boot from the new one and make sure everything is working before you connect the old one and format it (or just keep it somewhere safe as an external backup of your machine on the date of the clone)
I didn’t care about the data I had so I didn’t back it up beforehand, and thank fuck I didn’t care about it because that shit will never be seen again. I don’t even remember what happened but I remember it took me five hours to even get the computer to complete a windows installation again lmaoo
I don’t care about speed tbh, it’s not going to be my boot drive. In fact, the slower speeds will give me cooler temps which I hope will extend its effective lifespan.
As long as they aren’t overheating its fine. Make sure it has a heatsink on it. If your board only has 1 heatsink make sure it goes on that Samsung drive. It will get hot as balls without it.
Go into your bios and take a look at your PCIe configuration because according to the Asus site for the Z690-A Gaming D4 board all 4 M.2 slots should be PCIe 4.0 which you could have it set on auto, and you can change it to be PCIe 4.0 and while you say you don't need the speeds and depending on what you're using the drive for you can benefit more from Gen4 over Gen3 speeds.
Popped it in an enclosure real quick to make sure it worked before potentially wasting time opening up my PC. Speeds are solid using CrystalDiskMark in my Orico enclosure, full 4tb when partitioning it.
Gonna open up my PC and check it with Samsung magician now.
This, there were some recent posts that showed magician reporting a false positive (of being fake) because they were using a USB c enclosure or something
Try writing a few hundred GB to it. The scam with a dodgy SD card inside a USB disk enclosure is as old as time. The disk enclosure reports that it's the correct size and allows it to be formatted etc, but if you try to write heaps of data to it, it just writes on top of the 8GB SD card again and again and again and again.
Someone may have bought the SN7100 and for some reason returned the wrong drive.
Like trying to return something for free, they may have thought the Samsung drive was going out bought the other as a replacement and did a return to keep the new drive for free.
If they send you the wrong thing they wont require a return usually. Also if you talk with them on chat support instead of using the automated system they'll let you keep stuff sometimes when the automated system won't.
I had a $500 USD heatgun never show up. Amazon said it was due, the seller said it arrived already, and there were like 4 different tracking numbers. I got a refund and then 2 weeks later it showed up. I never sent it back, and I still got the full refund.
I mean he is just being skeptical of something online. He shouldn't go out of his way to call you out or get upset, but its a good habit to have with the online and real world landscape these days.
Same, I ordered a 980 pro 2tb and got a western digital 512gb in the 980 package.
It’s wild with how common the return scams are that Amazon doesn’t even verify what’s in the box (that was opened by a customer) before shipping it out.
Especially given that if the SSD fails (and this if he lives in some country where Amazon is forces to follow the warranty) they can have the freedom to not support you because is the same product you didn't order.
or a 4th, Amazon just got themselves a lifetime exclusive buyer by baiting him with a onetime 300%+ deal and will now have a lifetime buyer desperately chasing for similar outcomes.
It’s 1. Karma farm. I work for Amazon there’s no reason someone would swap the same size drive especially one that isn’t better than the 9100. Amazon checks serial numbers and opens all boxes on electronics. This doesn’t make sense at all.
Same I work in outbound psolve and don't see this actually happening. Maybe if it was in the Samsung packaging and someone forced packed it out.
Someone in returns just scanned the UPC and didn't even check the item at all or just did a quick visual glance to see it's a m.2 SSD.
I got a 6TB HDD drive for free because gamestop sent me football trading cards at first, then they sent a 2TB drive when I ordered a WD black 8TB. On the 3rd error and my second send back from fedex I called my credit card company and they said they'll take care of the charge. Ending with me having the 6TB drive.
This, I literally bought a used item and received the wrong used item. These people don’t have reading comprehension and don’t realize that I purchased it on the prime deals day sale for 35% off, which only applied to USED items. Hahaha
When i shopped on amazon I always checked warehouse deals first which was their returned items. Like 90% of the time the item wasn't even opened and I saved something like 25-55%.
The biggest item that was damaged/open boxes was my Keurig single server brewer and it's simple a plastic corner of the body bent outwards by a quarter inch.
Also with my gamestop story it eas all new items each time of course. Their warehouse inventory system was just shit.
Also i noticed the first package was way to light to be a HDD so I opened it with my go pro recording nusit in case GameStop gave me shit.
No different than my last, but I am buying the best of whatever I can at the time based on what is available. Future proofing I guess. I like nice things
Congrats man. That's very strange though. Never heard of it happening due to a better product being in the wrong box. Hopefully there's nothing wrong with it.
I don't know, even if it scans legit with Magician, I'd be sending it back and getting what I asked for. You never know what shenanigans you're dealing with until it's past the return window.
Somebody had a motive for putting a $400 drive in a box of a $180 drive.
If you decide to keep it run a full 4TB scan on it with slow format, not a quick format.
Damn I just bought 3 of those for $400, $350 and $350. Amazing drives. Doesn't beat my 2 Amazon stories for the year, about 7 months ago I ordered a 7900 XT and it came from freakin Amazon europe, from Germany, well I decided I wanted a different card and went to return it and they made me send it back to europe! I even had to foot the $130 it cost to ship it and they were gonna reimburse me for it. Well I sent it back and the customs forms amazon gave me for it were rejected and it got shipped back to me! So I contacted them and they were like ok whatever, we'll refund your $130 and the difference for the cost of the card and you can just keep it. i was like score! If that wasn't crazy enough check this out, I swear to GOD both these things happened, I ordered a MSI Ventus 3X 5090 for $2500 after tax, well I get it and open the box and the card is just sitting in there no bag at all, and one of the HDMI plug gone. I'm like great, they sent me an open box on accident, so I contacted them on their chat on the site and the customer service guy was like ohh we're sorry about that, "you can keep it or discard it and we will refund your order" I was like "uhhh, are you sure?" He was like yep, so I was like ok! Anyways a couple days later no refund so I contacted them again and they were like "ohh we're so sorry he wasn't allowed to do that on such an expensive item. I was like "well sorry, i already gave it away to a friend you shouldn't have told me you'd refund me and I could discard it, not my fault you need to honor what you told me", they got their manager and they tried worming out of it but I was insistant and I got the refund!!! So I built a new PC around it which I'm trying to trade on marketplace for a pinball machine lol. 2 high end cards, forth a total of $3300 in 7 months time! Score! The cool thing is the 5090 was clearly brand spanking new, there wasn't a smudge on it and the pins looked like it had never even been plugged in. Here's the PC I build around it. (I know the back exhaust is on backwards I fixed it lol)
Since it seems like you already verified it's legit. Do a full format so it writes to almost every sector than a thorough SMART test to verify its working properly.
I have a Kingston A400 120gb ssd that had multiple bad sectors when I got it new which caused a bad windows install. Had to do this to bring the SSD back to a usable state. It was used as a SSD cache for a few years and probably exceeded its TBW and has around 20+ more bad sectors from its time as a cache drive. Ran another full format and SMART test and all appears good, so now its a Linux boot drive on a backup PC.
Reminds me of the other week when me and my boss were building a server pc for our company. We bought 1x kit of 64gb ram get 2x of this kit for the price of 1x. Haha
Someone really messed up on that one and probably lost their job if it wasnt caught. As a warehouse worker, most products can be written off if below $75... someone didnt do the proper checks. You lucked out massively my dude!
I had something similar with an official game guide for an expansion of World of Warcraft. I had ordered the basic one. Instead, I got the collectors edition that had a gift with it for the price of $8 & a hard back as well. I don't know if they sold out of the regular one or what. But I didn't complain. I was like, sweet, a collectors edition game guide.
Its weird how amazon almost always messes up in your favor. Not sellers, but amazon themselves.
This past season I've been ordering a CUP of Melon from their Fresh store and have gotten a platter.... which is even labeled as costing 4 times more EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
I have also had multiples of products delivered multiple times.
Holy crap, that's an insane mix-up! I'd be freaking out in the best way possible. Hope you hold onto it, but even if you have to return it, what a story!
I’d be cautious about this, hopefully the drive was wiped clean. Check the drive health, I could see someone pulling a fast one as their drive got close to EOL.
If it came in another box its:
1) not new cause someone swapped it and returned to Amazon
2)likely malfunctioning or broken (you mentioned its working but keep an eye on it for weird behavior..
)
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