With advertised speeds up to 15.8 GB/s, the 1080 Pro would outperform the majority of the best SSDs on the market. Unfortunately, this is all false advertising, and Quasarzone has found that the 1080 Pro sometimes performs worse than a USB 2.0 pendrive.
You can find some legitimate deals on AliExpress, but most of the time, you'll find obscure deals that are a waste of time and effort. This 1080 Pro SSD is a perfect example. If a 4TB NVMe with a $43.68 price tag isn't enough to raise the red flags, then the advertised specifications should. The merchant promotes the 1080 Pro as a PCIe 4.0 drive, so there's no chance the SSD will hit the outrageous sequential read and write speeds of up to 15.8 GB/s and 14.5 GB/s, respectively. Not even the fastest PCIe 5.0 drives — like the Crucial T705 2TB — can offer that kind of performance.
Given the popularity of Samsung SSDs, it's not surprising that many Chinese factories tailor their bogus products to imitate Samsung's designs. Although the AliExpress seller was careful not to include Samsung's name in the listing or the marketing materials, it's evident that the 1080 Pro aims to pose as a Samsung product to deceive less-experienced users. The 1080 Pro utilizes a model name that insinuates it is the successor to the popular 990 Pro mimics the SSD's aesthetics.
