Fake HP Flash Drive 2TB USB 3.0

[MarcinPolska]

In Allegro, a popular online store in Poland, which aggregates offers from many sellers, I recently bought a USB Flash Drive with a capacity of 2TB, allegedly produced by HP. The disk cost PLN 99.99, which corresponds to USD 23. Unfortunately, it turned out that the capacity of this flash disk is physically much smaller. Probably only 32GB because some files are written to disk with fake content (filled with 0xFF). I didn't have the patience to test writing to a whole disk.

On the packaging there is a product barcode 4712477112501.

Please tell me if HP has ever produced a flash disk with such a barcode? Your answer will help me settle the dispute with the store.

On the front side of the flash drive housing is engraved the HP logo, 2TB, USB 3.0.

On the back side of the flash drive housing is engraved the model name "v250w" which was in the past produced by HP but had a capacity of 2 to 32 GB (depending on the model).

On the reverse side of the package there is also a less significant marking IN-1412V1 which the seller gave as "manufacturer's model number".

I also read the parameters from the USBView Application:

Device Descriptor: bcdUSB: 0x0200

bDeviceClass: 0x00

bDeviceSubClass: 0x00

bDeviceProtocol: 0x00

bMaxPacketSize0: 0x40 (64)

idVendor: 0x048D (Integrated Technology Express)

idProduct: 0x1234

bcdDevice: 0x0200

iManufacturer: 0x01

0x0409: "USB 3.0"

0x0804: "USB 3.0"

iProduct: 0x02

0x0409: "USB 3.0"

0x0804: "USB 3.0"

iSerialNumber: 0x03

0x0409: "2415131000110524824"

0x0804: "2415131000110524824"

bNumConfigurations: 0x01

ConnectionStatus: DeviceConnected

Current Config Value: 0x01

Device Bus Speed: High

Device Address: 0x14

Open Pipes: 2

And from Windows device manager: USB\VID_048D&PID_1234\2415131000110524824

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@MarcinPolska 

From your images, looks like it is a real one but who knows ! Google could not help but it gave an interesting article

              https://datarecovery.com/2022/03/the-2tb-flash-drive-scam-why-high-capacity-flash-drives-are-fakes/

Regards.

[MarcinPolska]

Thank you for the information. Please note that in the first photo you can see the flash disk engraved with "2TB".
However, the specification of flash disks with the designation "v250w" only provides for disks with a capacity of 2 to 32 GB.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02972516 

So I should ask a more general question in my first post:
Has HP ever sold any 2TB flash drive under its brand name?

I need this answer to have an argument in a dispute with the seller.