[Cervisia]

There is nothing obviously suspicious with what's inside. The SATA form factor was designed for HDDs; solid-state drives usually are not much larger than a M.2 drive.

These flash part numbers look like Intel. This is actually plausible; until 2018, Intel and Micron had a flash partnership. And while their Crucial brand has some good high-end drives, they are also willing to sell absolute bottom-of-the-barrel trash.

What are these discrepancies, and what's off in the SMART values?

[senectus1]

yeah sorry i dont have those deets anymore.. I remember they gave a lot less information than another one of the same make model and size.. I also remember the official FW refused to see the device.

It was 2 years ago.. so thats all i have :-P

[cm2187]

In fact I opened a failed 3.84TB SAS SSD recently and it looked fairly similar.