| We suspect that this flash drive being sold by haha1218ai88 on ebay is a fake capacity drive which will cause users to lose files. It is a model commonly sold by Chinese fraudsters. This Hong Kong seller registered with ebay on 21st April 2009 and could be an old fraudster returning with a new ID. |  |
If you bought one of these you should test immediately with h2testw.
Report in to SOSFakeFlash if your testing confirms you have a false capacity device.
Posted in: USB Flash Drives
Dubhbairn
June 14, 2009
I bought a fake 16GB thumb drive from Ebay user: haha1218ai88
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270398552698
The thumb drive turned out to be a 500MB drive. (32 times smaller than claimed!)
H2testw tested:
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The media is likely to be defective.
485.1 MByte OK (993536 sectors)
15.4 GByte DATA LOST (32397056 sectors)
Details:15.4 GByte overwritten (32397056 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
64 KByte aliased memory (128 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000001e500000
Expected: 0x000000001e500000
Found: 0x00000003faff0000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 4.13 MByte/s
Reading speed: 4.94 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
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He did not return any of my email or messages and I filed a claim with Paypal.