[PLUG-TALK] ThinkPad SD slot
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at gmx.com
Thu Mar 3 04:16:46 UTC 2022
On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 15:42:09 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>How intersting! The web sites I read suggested that SDs (adults and
>minis) are limited to 2GB, the SDHC (high capacity) to 32GB, and so on.
>
>> 3) The marketplace is overflowing with SD cards that were
>> manufactured as 32GB cards and have been hacked to appear as 1TB
>> cards (32 squared = 1024). Unfortunately, eBay, Amazon, Newegg, Best
>> Buy, and others offer the hacked cards with no way for the customer
>> to tell. And the picture and description indicate a name brand like
>> Kingston, SanDisk, etc. The only way to tell is the price - a '1TB
>> Kingston' card at a price of $24.99 is almost surely a fraud.
>As Alan pointed out, Bunny Huang's book has information on telling
>real from fake, but I've not yet read to chapter 5.
Bunny Huang's book may be excellent, but I didn't bother. How can I use
the methods in the book until I have the card in my hand? And by then,
I've bought it.
A couple years go I bought a USB drive on eBay that turned out to be
hacked. When I discovered it I messaged the seller to return it. It
took a week of messaging back and forth and getting eBay involved
before I finally got the seller to refund the money.
Buying drives online is scary these days. Online vendors need to set up
a system for vetting their sellers beyond just buyer feedback. Right
now there is an eBay seller offering 1TB cards for $24.99, using four
different user accounts, and all of them located in Monroe Township,
New Jersey. If eBay shuts him down or his feedback drops too low, he
just opens a new account. Newegg and Amazon aren't much better.
Tomas' method - to buy directly from the manufacturer - is the only
secure way to buy these days, but you pay the top price.[
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