64Gb USB3 pend drive

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product ... _id=113677



Loki

64GB thumb drive loaded with 4GB of memory.

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Thats what I was thinking.
If it sounds to good to be true it usually is.

Loki

How can you be sure? I mean, the price is fantastic and it 's probably a fraud, but... this looks like a legit store and has ebay option so if it is fraud they can get a lot of bad reviews etc, so ... i'm puzzled.

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Checked their ebay reviews & it's 99% with 92059 reviews.

Curiosity has got to me now so I've just bought one through there ebay shop, that way if it is fake I should be able to get a refund via PayPal

Loki

I wonder what's the hardware...

i was having a similar case when i remember 64GB flash
and thnx to Arvika for his tips i got it Done

http://flash-extractor.com/forum/viewto ... 5858#35858

Day by day, i find that those damn new flashes are really Headache, 15% are easy cases to recover and the rest is Complex scenarios
but really something new interesting to work with beside HDD`s

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My local comp-usa / tiger direct knowingly sells keydrives that are under capacity. These drives have been re-programmed to read 2x capacity than what they actually are. Typically they sell them under Centon name or something else equally obscure.

I talked to the manager one time about returning a faulty drive and he just went to the shelf and gave me a name brand Kingston replacement without even going through the return procedure at the register.

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As expected it is fake.
Tested it with H2testw & it cant copy past 8Gb.
Have emailed them first before going through PayPal for a refund.

What a shame that a company with such high customer Ebay rating & a 99% is selling fake items

Loki

@loki,





Would you mind sharing the H2testw output, as it may be useful for comparison with another (perhaps dodgy) 64GB flash thread on here?


Agreed, a real shame. I've bought items for several years from 7dayshop (including branded flash e.g. Kingston) which has tested OK. Now I'm wondering whether (a) they are innocent (and were stung by their supplier) and just have poor quality control and so they didn't detect this themselves, or (b) they have now "gone bad" and are knowingly selling fake flash...

Even if they refund you (which I expect they will do), that doesn't tell us whether they can be trusted in future or not. If you don't mind, would you report back on progress, when there is any? Thanks.

I have posted back the device so they can have look at it & am waiting to get the replacement through the post.
So hopefully all will be good in the end. Will let you know.

Loki

Hi loki,


OK - so no chance to re-run H2testw on the suspect one. Let's hope the replacement is OK. If the replacement isn't OK, and shows the same H2testw result that it may have less than 64GB of physical flash, then could you keep a copy of that H2testw output, please? (I don't have any "fake flash" at the moment, to get a genuine "failing" output from H2testw - that's why I'm asking, if you get the chance of course.)


Many thanks. It does leave us wondering how many customers got USB drives from 7dayshop like your original one, and don't yet know that, doesn't it... Anyway fingers-crossed your replacement one is OK.