[aklug] Re: Uhm.. look what I just got

I'd be wary of these. A friend bought one off ebay and it turned out to be fake. Hosed a whole mess of his files. A little research turned up a ton of sites that state all of these are fake. Seems China flooded the marked with fake flash drives around January/February. The sites claim Sony doesn't use the VAIO brand for flash drives and doesn't sell flash drives over 32GB. Whether or not those claims are true, I found it odd he got one off ebay while they didn't exist on major sites like newegg and amazon.

I'm interested though; where did you procure them?

http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-128gb-sony-vaio-usb-flash-drive/

Clay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane R. Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010 1:34 pm
Subject: [aklug] Uhm.. look what I just got
To: Alaska Linux Users Group <aklug@aklug.org>

> http://imgur.com/1bvGQ.jpg
>
> We have... 10 or so.. if anybody wants to purchase one just name
> your price off list. :)
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 134.2 GB, 134217728000 bytes
> 2 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2080507 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x001c6c97
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 * 1 2080508 131071984 b W95 FAT32
>
> ---------
> To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
>
>
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Fri Oct 1 15:51:26 2010