China - 500gb USB Flash Drives

05/15/2010

Do not buy these no matter where you are!!!

There are many fake Flash Drives / Pen Drives in the market nowadays. These drives are equipped with special boards known as "Upgrade Boards" by these business people. The software in the boards is written in such way that it makes your computer detect it as a Flash Drives with the space that they wanted it to be, which they are actually not. Moreover, these Flash Drives are usually those unsold 64mb or 128mb drives from the past, remodeled, resold as new Flash Drives. Some are even given out FREE by companies with their logos embossed on them.

The most ridiculous ones that I've ever seen are 500gbs Flash Drives in the Chinese Computer Stores. The amazing thing is that most who purchase them in bulk and containers are people from the West.

Well, if you ever get one of these Flash Drives and saved your precious data in them. Consider them Gone.

Note : Buy your Flash Drives from reputable sources or those you're comfortable with.

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Comments

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02/16/2011 7:33pm

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savage73

03/29/2011 6:50am

I'm holding the exact same 500GB flash drive as the one in the picture. "Sony" branded but it's 500GB.. A friend who went to China bought one that cost him something like 25-30 bucks.. Couldn't believe it until i popped it into the computer to check the capacity.. :p

Sid

11/23/2011 8:22am

Sometimes the capacity will show up as 500GB but once you start populating with data, after certain number (1GB maybe) you will get errors.

Geek, with a Social Grace

History of computers that I've touched and/or destroyed. Those that I do not often use are not mentioned.

1st - Apple, no OS, before QWERTY, lost in space

2nd - IBM, 186 processor, 86-DOS

3rd - IBM, 286 processor, MS-DOS, Games (Commander Keen, Crystal Caves)

4th - IBM, 386 processor, Windows 3.1, Games (Dark Ages)

5th - Wearnes, AMD 486 processor, Windows 95, Games (Red Alert, C&C)

6th - Neat, Intel Pentium 150mhz, Windows 95, dismantled twice

7th - Clone, Intel Pentium 2, 400mhz, Windows 98SE, destroyed

8th - Neat, Intel Pentium 3, 733mhz, Windows ME, Audio Enthusiast Specs, dismantled & destroyed

9th - Compuzone, Intel Pentium 4 1.9ghz, Windows XP, Gaming Specs, for office work now

10th - Compuzone, Intel Pentium 4HT 2.6ghz, Windows XP, Gaming Specs, for office work now

11th - Acer Ferrari 4000, Turion 1.6ghz, Windows 7 Ultimate, for emails

12th - Sony VAIO, Centrino 2, Windows Vista Business, for YouTube & Business

Ray Mak