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

On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:51 PM, CLAY SCOTT <rudeboy@gci.net> wrote:

> 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.=20

That's what I've heard too. Kingston makes a 256GB flash drive that retails=
 for about $750, but you can supposedly get one on eBay for fifty bucks. Buy=
ers have said that the drive appears as 256GB on their computer, but actual c=
apacity is closer to 256MB. Instead of saving your files, the drive only sav=
es shortcuts (which, o'course, are useless if you plug into any other comput=
er.) I didn't even know the part about file corruption.=
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Received on Fri Oct 1 18:15:20 2010