I found these articles in another forum and thought to post them here as well.

They are here in OOF, rather then in Technology - H/W and S/W, because it's
the scams I'm referring to, not the drives themselves...

Western Digital:
https://www.extremetech.com/computin...with-slow-ssds

Samsung:
https://www.extremetech.com/computin...-its-customers

- And somewhere in the mix Crucial is mentioned as well. I suppose they didn't
have enough space to mention every-other-co-and-their-dog

I recently also heard about a scam involving slower RAM substitution also.

Feel free to list your scams below...