Micheal J.

What the buyer purchases at Lazada when buying Kingston Technologies Product is the Trust in Kingston and the Kingston Warranty on the product.

The Kingston NV2 1TB are relatively new releases and for enterprise users and NGOs they are ideal as backup drives.
These are small devices. They are extremely powerful and fast. I am showing two different fake NV2 / M.2 NVMEs with their labels removed. They are comprised of SANDISK memory chips and 2017-vintage SM226ENG controllers. Compared to the real Kingston NVME NV2 they are slower than molasses.

You can see the fakes only have two so-called NAND chips (they are really two SANDISK mem chips) and a genuine 2017 variant Silicon Motion controller as compared to Kingston branded chips.

A real Kingston NV2 has a 2023 Phison PS5021-E21 controller and usually Toshiba 3D TLC NAND memory chips on the 1TB-NV2.

I am setting out two stores from which I have bought fake product thinking it was real because they claimed to be "Kingston Resellers" on Lazada.

They call themselves "OKc Mall" and "B Shark Mall"
I tried to get a refund; tried to get a return address for the product; tried to execute their "One Year Local Warranty" to no avail.

Since then I have done some digging and learned there are many stores on Lazad in the same gang selling counterfeit Kingston SSDs. They are selling many hundreds and making ₱millions on the phony product, exploiting neophyte computer hobbyists and people who simply trusted Kingston when they say the Kingston Reseller Logo.

Further research indicates that this is an attack on Taiwan. They are counterfeiting product in South of mainland China using Taiwan product as the target and the Taiwan serial numbers. (Photo attached.) Additionally I learned that other small companies making SSDs since 2018 have gone out of business in China, Taiwan and South Korea citing the low cost competition dodging the hazardous materials laws, labour laws, and other costs, and using 7-year-old cheap technology to flood the market with cheap technology under good-looking labels of name brands.

As far as I can tell, the factory making these bogus products is funded by the CCP. Why? Because they are kicking the hell out of the Taiwanese chip foundries.

The cost of this experience to me is
₱3,159.68
3,995.65
424.00
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7,579.33

These devices were to be used for data backups. I set up the devices with good heatsinks and had 600GB data added to each. One lasted 36 hours before it died and the other about three weeks.

I went to Kingston to get warranty coverage after writing many times to the sellers and to Lazada and got the most preposterous runaround imaginable.

Kingston said these are counterfeit and scolded me for not visiting an authorized seller. But the OKc Mall at Lazada claimed to be an authorized seller.

I will be taking additional action.