Friday, January 20, 2012

Fake Memory Card. It's Damn True....How To Check It??

Last 2 week i bought a fake 32Gb micro sd memory card from e-bay. Damn!! Thank God  the seller is nice. Since he also don't know that the memory card is fake (i don't know he was lying or not but i still can see the product on his shop in e-bay =) ) and he accept my refund request through Pay Pal so i just leave him with "no bad comment" on e-bay.

The syndrome of fake memory card is:

1-Memory card always corrupted after use more than certain amount. Like mine, after 1gb the memory card will corrupted even the capacity is 32gb. That's mean the actual size is only 1gb.
2-Cannot copy a big size file like 2GB movie. Operating system always warning about disk failure when you transfer a large files.

Yeahh....To check either your memory card is fake or not follow this step.

1-Make sure the memory card got label (Kingston, Samsung, Choice, Sandisk etc). Do not buy memory card that don't have any labeling. But please beware because some of the fake memory card also got a good labeling.
Example of fake memory card.
2-The price is not ridiculous. For example if market price for 32GB class 4 memory card is RM160 so the price should not below 30% than that. If the seller sell cheaper than that for sure they is something wrong.
3-Check the packaging and serial number. The original memory card should have a good packaging and serial number accept the one that come bundle with a phone.


4-Use SD Tools on android( if you got android phone). Check at SERIAL. Last time when i use fake one it just write 0000000000000. This is a screenshot of my original Kingston 32GB class 4 micro sd.

5-Download H2testw 1.4 (on pc) and make a test using it. Fake memory card will show a lot of false and bad sector. Like mine it show 980mb OK(working) and 30gb DATA LOST(bad sector). That's mean i only can use 1gb of the memory card and other 30gb is fake one. See and read the tutorial before use this tools. Its really simple. See the screenshot for example of fake memory card report.

6-Try reformat the memory card using HP USB DISK STORAGE FORMAT TOOL. And try to check it again using H2testw 1.4. If still got DATA LOST maybe you are a victim of fake memory card. Hurry up....Ask for REFUND !!!

Note: Got my refund and straightly go to SS2 Mall to buy a new 32gb memory card and notice another problem. The read speed is slow on android. Already found a >>>SOLUTION<<<. Yeaahh!!!!!

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