Sandisk Ultrafit USB sticks Fake ?

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i bought a 64Gb ultra fit sandisk USB Stick a few years ago

recently i bought another one, but a 32Gb , and im wondering if its fake

i am careful where i buy USB and memory cards from, like i will never buy from unknown 3rd party sellers, ebay etc

here's a photo of the 2 side by side, the black one is 32Gb, but it is not mentioned on it anywhere, only part of the name as 32G





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It looks similar to the one listed on WD site, I'm not too sure how else you'd verify. Any perf tests done? - normally that's the easiest way to tell if it's fake.
 
I'm certain I have 2 identical ones. I'll check tomorrow. Easy check is to transfer a large file over and see if it dies at a gig or two.
 
Certainly looks like a genuine ultrafit model. Best bet could be to try and register it with the serial number. Not aware of any WD or Sandisk option to verify a product other than just registering it.

I would assume if it's a duplicate/fake serial, their system would say as much.
 
nade said:
Certainly looks like a genuine ultrafit model. Best bet could be to try and register it with the serial number. Not aware of any WD or Sandisk option to verify a product other than just registering it.

I would assume if it's a duplicate/fake serial, their system would say as much.
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ill try that
thanks
 
ShiWarrior said:
i bought a 64Gb ultra fit sandisk USB Stick a few years ago

recently i bought another one, but a 32Gb , and im wondering if its fake

i am careful where i buy USB and memory cards from, like i will never buy from unknown 3rd party sellers, ebay etc

here's a photo of the 2 side by side, the black one is 32Gb, but it is not mentioned on it anywhere, only part of the name as 32G
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Do a google search plenty of free software that tests USB sticks to help tell you a) whether they are genuine and b) what their actual capacity is.

I bought the 2TB USB stick off of Facebook that kept being advertised all over the site just because I was curious to find out what they were actually passing off. Turned out it was 256mb stick after using a USB Stick Test Tool.
 
ShiWarrior said:
Surely Windows explorer will tell you the size anyway?
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There are tools to frig it, so Windows will report 2TB but actual storage will be like, 128mb. That's why I suggested to check authenticity by trying to write 30gigs worth of data to it.

There is no other benefit in "being fake".
 
Use a tool such as H2testw to check the capacity by actually filling it with data. I once bought a seemingly genuine SD card in proper packaging from a well-known store and found it was fake with this tool.
 
varkanoid said:
I bought the 2TB USB stick off of Facebook that kept being advertised all over the site just because I was curious to find out what they were actually passing off. Turned out it was 256mb stick after using a USB Stick Test Tool.
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Pretty futile to trust marketing in such place.
 
H2TESTW Result :

Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 15.3 MByte/s
Reading speed: 125 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
 
That's pretty much normal results for toward lower end USB sticks:
Read speeds are easy to achieve, writes suck for actually filling that modern capacity.
 
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