Noticed how cheap USB sticks are now?

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bledd. said:
overkill?

that's bigger than WAV.


remember you can still get 'fake' sticks and memory cards on the bay, flashed to think they're bigger than they are, data in the 'fake' section will be very unreliable.

saying that, that's only a small amount of them, sony memory sticks are the worst for it
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Generally when you go over it's actual storage limit the device screws up, and you have to reformat to get it to work again, where it shows it's true capacity. The data in that section isn't unreliable, it just doesn't exist at all!
 
Hmmm waste of time :(

The pendrive came yesterday and I have been testing throughout the day. Above 8GB the data becomes unreadable, Windows 7 detects errors on the drive and won't read it beyond that.

Will file a refund through Paypal to get my money back :)

I am now going to get a 2.5" USB2 enclosure for £9 as I have a spare 60GB laptop HDD that I could use instead....should have thought of that instead before lmao!
 
mrk said:
Hmmm waste of time :(

The pendrive came yesterday and I have been testing throughout the day. Above 8GB the data becomes unreadable, Windows 7 detects errors on the drive and won't read it beyond that.

Will file a refund through Paypal to get my money back :)

I am now going to get a 2.5" USB2 enclosure for £9 as I have a spare 60GB laptop HDD that I could use instead....should have thought of that instead before lmao!
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That sucks. Sorry to hear it mate.
 
You have been scammed. This is why you don't buy generic brand USB sticks off ebay and never, never ever buy any memory products from outside the UK.

It's an 8gb stick that has been "flashed" to a 16gb.

Don't feel too bad, I learned the hard way as well. Got my money back from paypal though.



and as for all the sound stuff, yes what you have done is completely pointless :p
 
Cheers tested using that tool!

gurusan said:
and as for all the sound stuff, yes what you have done is completely pointless :p
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What do you mean? I take it you're referring to someone else and not me with that statement?!
 
Warning: Only 16283 of 16284 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
1.9 GByte OK (4108283 sectors)
13.9 GByte DATA LOST (29239301 sectors)
Details:7.7 GByte overwritten (16339851 sectors)
2 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 4 sectors)
6.1 GByte corrupted (12899446 sectors)
590 KByte aliased memory (1180 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000007d570000
Expected: 0x000000007d570000
Found: 0x00000003f9a80200
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 2.63 MByte/s
Reading speed: 4.87 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
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According to that tool it's only a 2GB stick! weird....Maybe the 8GB limit I recahed before was just coincidence although I didn't exactly play back any tracks...just viewed in explorer.
 
Recently purchased a Sandisk 8Gb one for £10 and a few pennies, thought yours was a bargain until I read the thread :p

Hopefully you get your refund.
 
After having a similar experience I bought an 8gb Sandisk Cruzer for just under a tenner...great USB stick
 
Well Paypal will automatically refund my money on the 14th Nov if the seller doesn't do anything about it. I doubt he will.

Job done :p

Yeah I'll buy a Cruzer 16GB of a proper online store I think as the 2.5" HDD idea I'm unsure of, the amount of vibrations my car pushes into the cabin from the sports suspension and tyres is not really pleasant :p
 
LeJosh said:
Some places are overpriced and my mum was a victim -_-

Although entire music collection on 16GB?

I would only get 15 albums or so :p I've converted my music into 4096kbps, 1GB an album. :eek:
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surely that wouldnt make any differences than ripping cd's as FLAC files which is lossless audio from the cd at the highest bit-rate on the cd..:confused:
 
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