ampnation
03-20-2012, 06:26 PM
I was looking to buy a number of USB flash drives and decided to check out what chinese shippers had available. I ended up at this site...
dhgate.com
Quickly I found what seemed like incredible deals on USB thumb drives like a 16 or 32 Gb drive for around $6 when bought in quantities as low as ten. I'm glad I didn't pay and be done. Instead I looked closely at descriptions and followed up.
There may be legitimate memory cards on this site, but what I've found is, many of them say outright they are fake or "upgrade." What these are in brief terms, are cards that may be legitimately only a 2 Gb card with a 16 or even 32 Gb format applied so it LOOKS like a 16 or 32 Gb card to the machine that reads it. Because it only certified originally at 2 GB however, it will cause memory corruption, failures, etc. There's a reason it wasn't certified as 32 Gb at the factory.
I see from youtube this is a common problem and you can't trust the packaging or even the print directly on the product unless you know what to look for.
As such, I will, and I recommend, that when buying a flash drive for any purpose, but especially your high end controllers or decks, that you buy name brand products from authorized dealers of those name brands.
As a commentary, I'm thinking what is being done is that the factories have testing for the products and the nature of silicon chip production is such that the end products vary in quality. Those that test under spec, get put in a reject pile, but might test okay for a lower capacity. Instead of throwing away or recycling the rejects, they sell them to shady operators who imprint them with fake brands, capacities, etc.
dhgate.com
Quickly I found what seemed like incredible deals on USB thumb drives like a 16 or 32 Gb drive for around $6 when bought in quantities as low as ten. I'm glad I didn't pay and be done. Instead I looked closely at descriptions and followed up.
There may be legitimate memory cards on this site, but what I've found is, many of them say outright they are fake or "upgrade." What these are in brief terms, are cards that may be legitimately only a 2 Gb card with a 16 or even 32 Gb format applied so it LOOKS like a 16 or 32 Gb card to the machine that reads it. Because it only certified originally at 2 GB however, it will cause memory corruption, failures, etc. There's a reason it wasn't certified as 32 Gb at the factory.
I see from youtube this is a common problem and you can't trust the packaging or even the print directly on the product unless you know what to look for.
As such, I will, and I recommend, that when buying a flash drive for any purpose, but especially your high end controllers or decks, that you buy name brand products from authorized dealers of those name brands.
As a commentary, I'm thinking what is being done is that the factories have testing for the products and the nature of silicon chip production is such that the end products vary in quality. Those that test under spec, get put in a reject pile, but might test okay for a lower capacity. Instead of throwing away or recycling the rejects, they sell them to shady operators who imprint them with fake brands, capacities, etc.