I have trouble dealing with eBay, as with many of the 'online shopping services'. Not the least when I ASK for UK stock from UK suppliers. This was the latest purchase and was supposed to be a 4Tb hard disk in an external USB3 case. I was a little concerned when it arrived as it seemed a little light, and there was no sign of something spinning up when it powered up. In fact the ID said it was a 'AL SSD' and reported 3.9Tb of free space. Having copied some 1.4Tb of material onto it which windows displayed in the file manager, things looked OK, until you removed it and plugged in again. Most of the content was no longer listed. I did a low level format rather than the quick one, and it performed for nearly 2 days clocking up towards 100% and showed up clean and no bad sectors. SO try and upload again, another days work, but the same problem. Was offered a £12 discount because of the problems, but if the device does not work ... got a full refund this morning and was told no need to return it. So it got opened so I could try the disk in a different carrier. Not much chance of that ... it LOOKS like a micro SD carrier under the glue and I may run the heat gun over it to have a closer look, but definitely not the advertised storage device. Have left feedback, and reported to eBay, but the SAME sales pictures appear on dozens of listings so are all simply fraud or just some?

I still need the extra storage so I have a raw 4Tb SSD on order HOPEFULLY from a UK address and at the right sort of price for a real SSD 'disk'.

UPDATE: Having now dismantled fully, the electronics are a microSD carrier with an unmarked microSD card. The carrier works fine with real cards and is reasonably fast as a solid state storage should be. The microSD card will not work at all with another carrier but does report that it is 50.00Gb in that mode. Linux can't reset it, and returning it to the USB3 carrier it still reports 3.91Tb and I can now see that the first 45Gb of data is working OK, but beyond that none of the reported 1.4Tb of 'used disk' is actually accessible. WINDOWS is tricked into thinking things are there and I can load more which windows displays until the carrier is unmounted and reinstalled.