Thursday 12 January 2012

Is your pen drive original or fake?


Pen Drives used to store music, videos or any other data. They're the Portable Storage Devices for many peoples because its very portable other than devices. 
Now Flash drives also manufactured as fake drives and looks like original one. These duplicate pen drives imported mostly from China and selling in India. The selling price of these type pen drives are at low price. Even 256 GB Flash drives sold for 500 Rs. 
On computer, it will display only fake size of pen drives. Generally its capacity within 4 GB only and that made with small programs to show bigger capacity. When you copy the files larger than 2 GB, it will struggle to work then dead. So how to check your pen drive is original or fake.

1. H2Testw is worthy software to check a flash drive is original or not. 

You can check SD cards and various types of memory cards, too.
Download this software here  (http://www.ziddu.com/download/17497265/h2testw_1.4.zip.html)
2. Unzip/Extract the file and run the application file.
3. Before checking a pen drive, empty the files and folders.
4. Click Target device and select your removable device.
5. Click Write+Verify button and wait for your pen drive being checked.
5. If your pen drive is verified as original one, it will be displayed as “Test finished without errors”


6. If your pen drive is fake one, it will be displayed as “The media is likely to be defective


This software displays read/write speed and errors of your USB drive. If your USB device is damaged, you will see some errors. you can select also internal hard disk drives for this verifying method.

Prevent to buy fake pen drives:

• Never buy pen drives from unfamiliar persons.
• Never buy flash drives via online websites. The fake flash drives listed in Ebay.com also with original brand names like as Sony, Kingston, Transcend and etc.
• Buy only in branded stores and good shops you already known.



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

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