
Should you buy 2TB, 1TB or 512GB flash pen stick drives? Most of these flash drives have less than 2GB real storage capacity. Selling them on eBay is considered wire fraud by the USPS (United States Postal System).
By Spookie:
The listings below are only a small sampling of items listed on Alibaba.com. You will find some of these on sale at eBay in smaller sizes. It won’t be long before some dummy starts selling them on eBay. You will be reported to SOSFakeFlash.wordpress.com, if you do sell any flash drives in these sizes. Flash drive memory sticks are not manufactured at a capacity higher than 256GB.
2tb usb flash drives
1tb usb flash drives
512gb flash drives
Will 512GB, 1TB or 2TB usb flash drives exist some day? Yes. They are not expected soon.
The cost will be expensive. DT310 512 usb flash drives first sold for more than $800 US. Later for at least $700 US. You will never find real flash memory at $20 US in these sizes, you will buy a fake.
Additional Information:
H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives
Global Report – eBay Fake Memory 2008 – 2009
Validation For Flash Memory:
Visit FakeMemorySentinel for a list of brand names and sites, see left menu bar titled “Validation Memory”. For Kingston Technology products read: Kingston USB Flash Drives. How To Check You Have A Genuine One And Not A Counterfeit – Easy Guide. Kingston Technologies Fighting To Protect Consumers And Itself From Counterfeits.
robert
May 21, 2012
wen0158 is another pure fake HDD seller