I can prove that real easy too

OP Shoulda told us how many it can really store

The article says 64GB, which you probably would have figured in your head, had you already read the subtitle.

You used to be able to work out whether a product was OK from the reviews, if you scanned through a lot of them. Not any more.

And water is wet

Yeah, I miss those days. Now sellers give freebies and perks for a 5⭐ positive review coughAmazoncough so that reviews are no longer reliable.

The worst thing about this is that the drive usually has the worst kind of fails-silently behavior. It's too expensive for your computer to read every write so it trusts the drive controller to give accurate reports of its size and remaining capacity. Other than that, unless the drive reports an error it looks like a good write. Finally the drive needs to actually accept filesystem recordkeeping to show it can manage the filesystem, or it it's an obvious disk formatting error.

This means writing more than 64gb (or whatever true size it is in the drive) will have the drive say, "sure thing, OS, the write was fine" and even updates the file record to show a file of the right size is there but the data for the file actually goes... nowhere. Into the void. Silently. Until the user looks for it. I was curious about this scam back in the day and replicated the behavior with badblocks on Linux on a similar disk.

LoL. Did we really need that? Like you really thought that 70 bucks could buy you a 16TB SSD....hahaha. We share this planet with NPCs.

I've given a negative review to a product and had a seller somehow get my personal email address and send requests for over a year to change/delete my review in exchange for an Amazon gift card

You’re not alone. I bought a rather popular facial exfoliation system and tried it for two weeks like the products manufacturer recommends. What I found out was that the “consumables” (filters and “diamond” coated exfoliating tips) were consumed excessively quick (tips didn’t last but a few sessions before becoming smooth and needing to be replaced).

I went through the consumables and the extra kit I purchased in that two week period. I returned the main product but ate the cost of the kit ($43) and left my review describing the cost associated would well exceed the products cost ($150) in less than two months, and that there were cheaper alternatives available. Within a week I had almost a hundred (found this helpful) tags, and I started getting weird numbers calling me rather late at night.

Since I work nights and early mornings often this wasn’t an inconvenience, but what happened after I answered some of the calls was a problem. I was cursed at and hung up on, told my mother did various things with dogs and or monkeys and hung up on, and sometimes I’d get an individual who would tell me that I’ll die for doing what I’m doing (I had no clue I was doing anything). The numbers were usually spoofed to local prefixes and after a week or two of the crap I contacted Amazon and explained the problem and what it was related to.

Amazon tells me that they are going to investigate, and maybe two days later I receive a canned email message from Amazon telling me that my review has been removed due to not meeting community standards. I literally have done close to a thousand reviews of everything I’ve bought since I’ve been on Amazon. I’ve got followers and used to keep up with that stuff, but after they removed the review I couldn’t write on my page or make reviews that were actually “approved”. I had to literally use another Amazon account to post the reviews which were “rejected” on the other account.

The product was plastered on sponsored ads everywhere on Amazon at the time. However, now it’s name has changed and the logo changed and the old one just vanished. Even calling the number for the old products order line for consumables has been disconnected.

I still get random calls from “Asian” sounding individuals. Sometimes they just say my name and hang up or I’ll get a “fuck you dog or monkey fucker” (they’re usually Indian sounding) then the hang up.

Anyone who thinks a 16TB SSD drive can be bought for $70, please come see me I have a nice bridge I’d like to sell you.