$13 Samsung 250GB EVO 840's Ebay. Fake or not?

[The Grapist]

Recently there have been a few listings of decently reputable sellers posting Samsung Evo 840 SSD's. For yes, $13.99.

I just purchased four of them, I'll be researching the chips and controllers. Also recording the entire unbox and install process for great evidence if these are indeed fake.

Im actually excited to see if i can bust some scammers.

Links:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281626763271?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SSD-250GB-250G-Samsung-840-EVO-Solid-State-Drive-new-/291404291770?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item43d90c9eba

Just to put into perspective how great of a "Deal" this is, if they are indeed legit.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&ghostText=&_sacat=0&_sop=10&_nkw=evo+840+250gb&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

Any comments are more than welcome, i'd like to hear your thoughts.

[Azza ☠]

Yeah, my parents got me a cheap ipod nano from China on a holiday, when I was like 10.

Spos to be 4GB, ended up as 128MB with a reflash/modified firmware. Copy some music onto works fine at first, but when you reach the limit it appears as duplications of the first content, it just mirrors the original 128MB across the entire faked 4GB.

I remember snapping that rubbish in half!

ps: His feeback was from a year ago, probably abandoned account and been stolen to sell fakes no doubt.

Attempt to write data across a large section and check first. Seems too good to be true... and you know the saying.

The other option is it's the NSA releasing their firmware spy virus out into drives to monitor on:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/16/8048243/nsa-hard-drive-firmware-virus-stuxnet

If the SSD EVO is bugged with slowdown issues, then try updating the firmware:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2836082/samsung-delivers-fix-for-ssd-slowdowns.html