How do you tell a true Transcend USB Flash Drive from a Counterfeit (Fake – False Capacity)? Where can you check?
Transcend is the latest Brand Name to suffer from Counterfeiting for USB Flash Drives, joining Kingston and Sony. SOSFakeFlash recently received their first confirmation of a Transcend 32 JetFlash V30 USB Flash Drive being sold on eBay by seller hellopetpet. The Transcend 32 JetFlash V30 is only made up to 16GB in size. When SOSFakeFlash reviewed eBay for Transcend Flash drives it was not difficult to detect the true capacity from the counterfeits. Like Kingston, Transcend uses colour coding. Within a few minutes two other sellers were detected selling counterfeit Transcend 32 JetFlash V30 flash drives, ren-ren-buy and maya.city .
You should visit the Official Transcend site to check out what they sell. USB Flash Drives Made By Transcend
For older models, type the model in on google, then look for the transcend website. Like most manufacturers these days they don’t show an archive of older models, but like many sites, the pages are still there.
Transcend is very much aware of the counterfeiting of their products and have set up product verification.
In order to protect our customers rights and our superior brand image, we have set up this site to allow customers to verify the authenticity of their products.
Go to their webpage and verify the flash drive you bought. You can use it to check other products to see if they are genuine too. If you don’t see your drive, get a message that they did not make it, have doubts or questions, please contact them for help:
If you performed testing and found you bought a counterfeit, let them know. Tell them where you bought the item and from whom. The only way to put a stop to this problem is to help. You probably chose transcend to AVOID buying a fake in the first place. Let them know where you bought your counterfeit from!
If you need or want to test the real capacity of your usb flash drive see: H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives If it turns out you bought it on eBay and is a fake, please Report A Fake to SOSFakeFlash.
Update April 4th, 2009 – Visit these sites for additional information:
- New! Flash Drive Education. Fakes and Counterfeits http://flashdrivefacts.wordpress.com/
- Early News Warning On Fake Flash Sellers http://fakememorysentinel.wordpress.com/
- Documented Fake Flash Sellers. Help. Main site: http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/
- Known Solutions For Repairing Flash Usb Devices. http://fixfakeflash.wordpress.com/
Fake Flash News - Internet & eBay Fraud 
Rolando Fulo
December 3, 2011
Sellers usually refer to a fake USB Drive as “class A”. For fake transcend flash drive, the serial number on the packaging is different from that which is printed on the flash drive. Second, original transcend flash drives will have “Transcend” as its drive name. Third, originals contain transcend logo & files in it. “Class A” or fake do not have this.
Normally, if you ask the seller if it’s class A or original, they will tell you. But if you do not ask, they won’t tell. But the best clue is the price – fakes are really cheap.
Sinu
November 19, 2011
I bought a fake Transcend 8GB Transcend USB flash drive from a Shop in Kamanahalli, Bangalore. It was a small shop and the seller refused to take it back. The drive is seen to cause data corruption and is extremely slow. Sometimes it wont even detect. The packing and the drive appears to be original but this one is a bummer….