FAKE USB Flash Drives are around the traps again.. | Electronics

chrisn5162 · 2015-01-29T17:15:27.039000Z

Waiting to trap us guys and gals into buying them...Noticed a lot going over the last month or so, at least more than usual!Mainly no brand devices in the range of 32 to 128GB, all very cheap of course. I suspect that some otherwise reliable sellers are getting conned into selling these things without any real checks.I bought a 32GB drive for $2.70 that didn't live up to it's name (well actually it didn't really have a name, just a 32GB sticker!) They can start off being written to OK, then run out of real room, throw data away, or start writing data back over what is already written , very convenient. Tests using FAKEFLASHTEST v1.1.1 showed "Device has duplicate or bad blocks" The testing program and instructions are available here.. http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/-fake-usb-flash-memory-drives I found it ran very slowly on the faulty drive but very fast on a good drive.

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