Duplicate flash drives (kingston) are flooding in Bangalore and Chennai and almost all the parts of india, usually this kinda pen /flash drive is distributed by road side person who approaches you and say they found these pen drives in abandoned godowns and they are selling these pen drives for lowest price the price depends on the person who is dealing with, the same fake pen drive will be sold from rs 300 - rs 1200 depending on the person.
These fake pen drives are manufactured using famous brand names such as Kingston, transcend and sandisk these pendrives are tweaked so that it shows 32GB in the properties making it hard to identify it as a fake at first look.
true face of this pendrives start to reveal once you start using them the files get corrupted as the data you store increases and according to sources these fake pendrives cannot hold data more than 512mb to 6GB max depending on how it is manufactured and you can see some folders automatically get created sucking up huge disk space and cannot be deleted i think this is the trick to mask the storeage capacitysee the PIC above.So guys when if you are planning to buy a pendrive get it from a trusted source or dealer with the warranty else you gonna loose money for nothing
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Oops.. one of my colleague to fell for the trap then.. let me check with him if his pen drive can hold 32GB of data. He bought it very recently at a very cheap price!!
India is definately being impacted by counterfeit usb flash drives. We see this in traffic to our site and also comments for assistence. Unfortunately we do not know just how bad it is.
There is a Project that was started last year called the FrankenFlash Project. People are fighting back against this issue and it is Global.
The main site is at: http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/
You will find a ring of sites linked to address different issues:
General Information - SOSFakeFlash
News - FakeFlashNews
Fight Fraud - fightflashfraud
Fixing Fake Flash Devices fixfakeflash
Consumer Information - FlashDriveFacts
The newest site is FlashDriveFacts, it is geared to provide education and information on the subject of flash based usb devices. Also consumer and reseller education.
FlashChipTutor just began a series on known Kingston DataTraveler fakes. It shows the drives and the packaging. This site also a validation category where people can verify if their items are genuine or not.
A favorite article of mine is called: Ebay Fake Flash Sellers Alert India - A Mystery In New Delhi at the news site.
Digitally altering usb flash drives to "lie" about their real size to operating systems is both devious and dangerous to users - they loss data. It occurs in the orient, making a little usb flash drive appear much larger than it is. The moment a person goes over the true capacity of the flash drive chip - data loss begins.
Everyone who buys a usb pen flash drive should test it for it's true capacity before storing any data on it. Google for H2testw 1.4
You will get the post that explains everything and the links to follow to get the free software. Never use a usb flash pen drive without testing it, no matter where you buy it from. Fakes and counterfeits are showing up everywhere and also in some retail stores.
The Project does wonder what the impact is in India - we mainly track eBay and also wholesale sites in the orient.
So true man.the other day this guy approached me in Gandhinagar(Bangalore) and tried sellin me a 32GB Sandisk pendrive sayin that it was a without bill piece and all jazz.Luckily I knew there was no genuinity in the sale.Phew, but I dint realise it was a racket.
same thing happened to me. I am in Bangalore.
But luckily i was near my office and told that i will check the pendrive before paying. and when i formatted it, i could not. So, i returned it.
then i searched web for fake pendrives and reached this site.
Thanks for sharing this info.
that's right.. i have faced this situation just today, couple of hours before, a road side guy, asking me to buy those pendrive at a cheap price. i don't wanted 2 take the risk, i denied
yaa ..this is true.in my case it happened.i was at bombay one of my coluege gave to me for 1000/-Sandisk pendrive 32GB .then after i checked that was not good.
my friend also bought these and gave one to me but all in vain it was fake ..and is of no use .he was fooled
Sir navu uttarkarnataka davaru bere ella distric idre. Chennagirutte
Sir navu uttarkarnataka davaru bere ella distric idre. Chennagirutte
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