tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post8815719184490914599..comments2024-03-27T07:30:02.390+00:00Comments on drsolly: Very cheap, very fast, very big hard drive?drsollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15954188290191548178noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-70026317892530859882016-06-17T22:20:37.195+01:002016-06-17T22:20:37.195+01:00I tested two more 64gb devices. One passed, one fa...I tested two more 64gb devices. One passed, one failed. Yes, my 256gb was a UK supplier. I've complained, we'll see what happens.<br /><br />What a scam!drsollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15954188290191548178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-29826589648542120682016-06-17T18:58:32.048+01:002016-06-17T18:58:32.048+01:00The H2TESTW takes an awfully long time, so I only ...The H2TESTW takes an awfully long time, so I only tested the first 64GB. 6.4GByte was written OK, the rest was all missing. I'll send the test results to the vendor and expect a refund. They're in the UK so will be more careful to protect their reputation so I don't expect any problem.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10874986622698827580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-34663458404659550742016-06-17T18:28:23.093+01:002016-06-17T18:28:23.093+01:00This has been going on a long time. EBay apparentl...This has been going on a long time. EBay apparently doesn't try to police it. The vendor will give you a refund without a quibble- only a small percentage of their customers ask for one. If you sift through their feedback, you will find a few, very few, complaints from people who know what is going on, but these are overwhelmed by plaudits from the clueless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-89508755977708171992016-06-17T11:34:13.951+01:002016-06-17T11:34:13.951+01:00Sorry Nigel, but you should be able to get a refun...Sorry Nigel, but you should be able to get a refund. Mine hasn't arrived yet, but when it does, I'll give it a test before giving feedback, and if it's fake, I'll ask for a refund.<br /><br />My test method is to copy 256 gb of data to the card, and see what happens. What I got was lots of I/O errors, and at 8gb it reported that the card was full.<br /><br />Caveat emptor!!!drsollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15954188290191548178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-75286919321070890302016-06-17T10:43:15.157+01:002016-06-17T10:43:15.157+01:00Very common scam, especially on eBay. I am surpris...Very common scam, especially on eBay. I am surprised you have only now heard about it. The cards (or USB drives) are formatted with faked headers that claim they have much more capacity than they do. Users don't put a lot of data on them right away, or try to read it back, so they think they are working. Sellers even get great reviews based on the price. Then the cards start to deliver corrupted reads and the buyers think they have gone bad.<br /><br />The standard tool for testing for false capacity is H2TESTW, free all over the net.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143925273655347334.post-91942893231547140712016-06-17T00:05:24.193+01:002016-06-17T00:05:24.193+01:00Until I read your recent blog about 512GB SDCards ...Until I read your recent blog about 512GB SDCards I didn't know they existed. I tried to order from, I suspect, the same supplier you initially used, but eBay wouldn't accept Paypal for that order. Instead, I bought a similar one - same pic - from a UK supplier (£14, still cheap I thought). Windows says it has a capacity of 499GB. It was formatted to FAT32, I've reformatted it to NTFS. I'm currently loading a couple of backups onto it to stress it, I'll report back.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10874986622698827580noreply@blogger.com