Price from Memorybits.co.uk £620.86

eBay from China £13.99!!!

It's gotta be worth a punt for £14?

What do you think?

Well, he's sold 57 of them with no feedback yet

I think the clue is in the advert wording

Please note: this product is a very high quality of the original Kingston USB Drive, Made in China* :wonder: :wonder:

Probably end up being 256MB.

Also he has no rating.

I can't see how he can sell something for £14 that's worth £600 even a copy I would have expected around £70-100

Probably end up being 256MB.

Exactly or a couple of GB which is modified to look like 256GB when initially plugged in so people will probably give positive feedback then find out when they actually transfer data to it that it has a fraction of the capacity.

John

Or you will get f-all and find that the payments have gone into a hacked paypal account

All sounds a bit "Nigerian" to me (Other scamming nations are available on request) when you read the answers to posted questions.

If it is of said size it'll be cheap chips that corrupt as soon as you put data on them.. Steer clear, if it looks too good to be true, it is..

Kev

I wouldn't even risk £14 :no:

You'll plug it it and it will "say" it has 256GB but it doesn't. They mess with it somehow to get it to say it has more than it does. I think once you format it, it reverets to what it should be. Probably 64Mb

Sold 66 now, and still no feedback. Give it a few more days and the neg feedback should start arriving.

If it is of said size it'll be cheap chips that corrupt as soon as you put data on them.. Steer clear, if it looks too good to be true, it is..

Kev

There's simply no way it can be that size for that price as even 'cheap' memory isn't drastically cheaper, I would guess at that price it's probably around 4-8GB as most people will copy some data on it, think everything is fine and leave positive feedback and only find out further down the line that it's a fake. I'd have hoped most people would have been sensible enough to realise this must be fake for the price but judging the amounts sold perhaps not.

John

Listing now removed - Nuff Said

For anyone who has purchased a suspicious drive or wanting more information on how this works, this is a good read:

http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/

One important issue to note is that aside from the much lower capacity, the memory itself is usually garbage as well so it's not even worth a gamble on as even the memory it actually has is not that usable. As an example a workmate bought a 'Sony' 256GB memory stick for 20 pounds, in Windows it looked ok but on running the software above it showed the actual capacity as just 2GB (despite the owner claiming he had successfully used 16GB on it). The write speed was very poor averaging just 2.5MB/s compared to 10+MB/s for a standard USB drive, that price would have bought a proper 16GB drive.

John

Here you are -about a gallon of jungle juice from you -cost you about £4 to get in ,but packed with goodies . http://www.excaliburcomputerfairs.co.uk/about-computer-fairs/venues

Maybe other ones nearer -maybe worth a google on "Computer fairs". I've had memory / second hand HDD /graphics from the one at Brum - never had a problem .There's usually some trade blokes with new stuff as well .

Not a chance!

And there's no way I'd buy anything storage related from eBay, unless it's a very, very good seller. For USB sticks, SD cards and the like e-tailers like MyMemory and Play are perfectly competitive and you have a little bit of peace of mind too...

Have seen a fair few fake USB drives around. Worst example was a supposed 32GB drive that was actually 16MB. The guy purchased from eBay some years ago for £40.

On a side note, I remember building my first PC years and years ago, probably around 1992/3. I spent over £100 on the largest hard drive I thought I needed. A whopping 24MB ...

... now I have single JPG image files larger than that.

Anyone else ever remember their first 1GB hard drive? That feeling of "it's a full gigabyte, I'll never fill that as long as I live!".

Have seen a fair few fake USB drives around. Worst example was a supposed 32GB drive that was actually 16MB. The guy purchased from eBay some years ago for £40.

On a side note, I remember building my first PC years and years ago, probably around 1992/3. I spent over £100 on the largest hard drive I thought I needed. A whopping 24MB ...

... now I have single JPG image files larger than that.

Anyone else ever remember their first 1GB hard drive? That feeling of "it's a full gigabyte, I'll never fill that as long as I live!".

My first HDD - 20 Mb , doubled up to 40 .

Next one -a laptop - a massive 500Mb .

Now my HDD - MASTER circa 400gb , secondary a mere 80 gb ,with some spare geriatric HDD PF 80 /80/ 5 GB sitting as stores - if used little they're reliable,else not .

Have seen a fair few fake USB drives around. Worst example was a supposed 32GB drive that was actually 16MB. The guy purchased from eBay some years ago for £40.

On a side note, I remember building my first PC years and years ago, probably around 1992/3. I spent over £100 on the largest hard drive I thought I needed. A whopping 24MB ...

... now I have single JPG image files larger than that.

Anyone else ever remember their first 1GB hard drive? That feeling of "it's a full gigabyte, I'll never fill that as long as I live!".

Remember driving in 1986 to Croydon (16 miles, 1.5 hours journey time) to get my first hard drive ever, a whopping 20 MB RLE format Seagate - for installation in an Amstrad 1640.

Still functioning until last summer when I cleared it out of the loft to make space. Someone at the waste depot got an appreciating asset there !

Nick

Yeah, thinking back, I think my hard drive was 20mb in fact not 24mb. Could be wrong though.

I do remember the momentous occasion when RAM dropped to £1 per MB. Being as even my file server has 2gb in it, I'm glad the price has continued to plummet since then.