new external 4T exfat SSD will not mount in linux, but functions in windows

Question

I acquired a new USB3 4TiB external SSD that neatly shows up under Windows 7, but not on my Linux (actually Lubuntu which presents itself with lsb_release -a as a Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS) system.

KDE partition manager sees: SSD-3,81 TiB(/dev/sdb) with 1.023.999.165 sectors and with a logical and physical sector size of 4,00 KiB

Starting GParted gives:

GParted 1.3.1
configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
libparted 3.4
Input/output error during read on /dev/sdb

Because retrying was of no use, I ignored this and then I got the pop-up in GParted with the message: "The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.

After selecting /dev/sdb in GParted, the following information is given:

/dev/sdb1 (warning triangle) name: Microsoft reserved partition, File System: unknown, Size 15,98 MiB, Flags: msfres

and

/dev/sdb2 (warning triangle) name:Basic data partition, File System: unknown, Size: 3,81 TiB, Flags: msftdata

A right click on the partition /dev/sdb1 and choosing "information" gives the following results:

for /dev/sdb1:

File system

File system: unknown Size: 15.98 MiB Label: (empty) UUID: (empty) Status: Not mounted

Partition

Path: /dev/sdb1 Name: Microsoft reserved partition Flags: msftres First sector: 6 Last sector: 4095 Total sectors: 4090

Warning:

Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are: - The file system is damaged - The file system is unknown to GParted - There is no file system available (unformatted) - The device entry /dev/sdb1 is missing

A right click on the partition /dev/sdb2 and choosing "information" gives the following results:

for /dev/sdb1:

File system

File system: unknown Size: 3.81 TiB Label: UUID: Status: Not mounted

Partition

Path: /dev/sdb2 Name: Basic data partition Flags: msftdata First sector: 4096 Last sector: 1023999993 Total sectors: 4090

Warning:

Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are: - The file system is damaged - The file system is unknown to GParted - There is no file system available (unformatted) - The device entry /dev/sdb2 is missing

I hope that this gives enough info for now.

EDIT-1:

sudo lsblk
.
.
sdb      8:16   0   3,8T  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0    16M  0 part 
└─sdb2   8:18   0   3,8T  0 part 

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
Disk /dev/sdb: 3,81 TiB, 4194304000000 bytes, 1024000000 sectors
Disk model: SSD             
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B5378DF5-4C3E-40B9-A353-66EEC346DDEE
Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1      6       4095       4090   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2   4096 1023999993 1023995898  3,8T Microsoft basic data

My wish is to use the SSD with my Linux pc (and if possible also with Windows 7). Of course the SSD does not contain any data now, so formatting it should be no problem, but I cannot acces it from Linux.

Questions:

1. how to fix the problem from Linux?
2. how to fix the problem from Windows?

EDIT-2

Questions:

3. how to format this SSD completely to exFat?

Answer 1

I found at what the problem is with this "SSD" with a capacity of "4T" which is "fast" and "USB3".

All 4 claims above are FALSE.

It is a scam product that I picked up from AliExpress. I am trying to get my money back, but I do not have high hopes.

In fact the product is a SD in a case looking like a SSD with much smaller storage size than the claimed 4T on a slow USB with lower transfer speeds than a fast SSD should have, but this thing does not exceed the 10MB/s

Do I have to change the title of the question now? Maybe make it a warning?

EDIT-1:

I found out about this scam that I stepped into, by finding this page on Linux.org where someone posed the same type of question as i did post here. Eventually an answer came up pointing to a video where the scam is being exposed and I immediately recognized it as the same kind of product.

I plan to test the device with f3 (fight fake flash) like ubfan1 suggested in the comment below, but I ran into a problem mounting the device which seems to be needed to test it.

As soon as I succeed in testing the device succesfully with the f3 program I will report the results here.

EDIT-2:

Here some external differences between a fake and a genuine external USB3 SSD can be seen: