Many times on the street we come across street vendors from USB sticks (flash memory, SD cards, micro SD ...), who loudly announce their irresistible offers of large capacity pen drives at low prices, you come closer, you see the products and the quality palpable-visual (Does that word exist?) Of them is apparently legit.
However, the fly in the ointment comes out when you are about to fill the pendrive and unexpectedly you notice that the real capacity was not the one that appears on the box, but a few Gigs, not even close to half of what was promised: S
The height of bad luck is that in some cases you cannot copy more than 1 GB, it returns an error and you find yourself unable to delete the copied files. Pfff a scam of those that are ashamed to tell them ...
How to prevent the scam? buying in local stores, but if you already bought one online or maybe on the street and you want know if your Pendrive is fake, apply a test, that is, a checking its status.
Checking a fake USB stick
1. The first thing is to download H2testw, a free tool for check the integrity of the storage disks. It is portable, light, does not require installation so unzip and run it.
2. Change your language to English (so you don't have to deal with German) and with the “Select target” button, you locate the unit of your device.
3. Click Write + Verify to start the check.
The time of the process will depend on the capacity of the pendrive, at the end of the test if everything went well the notice will tell you: Test finished without errors.
That means that your device will not give you headaches, otherwise, if your USB memory turns out to be false, the message will be different as seen in the following screenshot:
The first three lines indicate the following:
The media is likely to be defective.
6.7 GByte OK (14246936 sectors)
55.5 GByte DATA LOST (116567016 sectors)
What translated would be:
The device appears to be faulty
Actual capacity is 6.7GB
55.5 GB lost
Very easy and useful right? On this post More detailed information on its author can be found with this cited example.
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And you, have you ever bought a fake pendrive? share your experience with us.