let's say 1% of people bought them and realised they were duds, that's over a hundred 1 star reviews. I know about the fake Chinese sticks, I know about firmware hacks, I'm just saying there are a few that are okay but it takes a keen eye to spot them. I have 3 generic sticks which cost £6, are holding over 100GB each and still going strong. my point is why pay three times as much for a generic stick
pavel76
12 Sep 16#24
Sorry but you are naive if talking seriously... Reddit is right - all these impossible cheap sticks on eBay are fakes with people posting posting positive fedback just after receiving item( without any proper checks)
verbumSapienti
12 Sep 16#23
13864 sold, 12x 5 star reviews
I know the ones you are on about but there are a few good ones around.
reddit
11 Sep 16#22
Up to £17.95 now
verbumSapienti
4 Sep 16#12
with a little searching and filtering you can get three 128GB drives from the well known auction site, shipped from UK, for this price. pretty much the same slow generic stick. as mentioned great for storing and playing back films. definitely would not pay this price for one
pavel76 to verbumSapienti
4 Sep 16#13
Junk fake stick... go on for one then
3guesses to verbumSapienti
4 Sep 16#14
Go on then, give us a link. Or at least an auction number...
coventgamer to verbumSapienti
5 Sep 16#15
most things on the bay are fake sticks 4-8gb havked to show 128gb after 4gb is reached they corrupt your data
Jefft to verbumSapienti
5 Sep 161#16
"With a little searching and filtering" you would know that a lot of the USB sticks on a "well known auction site" have fake capacities.
leelukehope to verbumSapienti
5 Sep 16#17
Terrible advice.
These sticks aren't just generic ones like those on eBay. I've got two of them and have achieved higher write speeds than they quoted themselves. Feel quite cool even during long transfers. Certainly not the fastest but definitely one of the most reliable ones I've owned.
reddit to verbumSapienti
11 Sep 16#21
The generic ones on Ebay at the impossibly low prices are all fake.
Despite their claims of being units that have failed manufacturers testing, they are actually 8Gb, cleverly formatted to look larger.
verbumSapienti
5 Sep 16#18
e.g. 181804060648
you're all welcome.
pavel76 to verbumSapienti
5 Sep 16#19
Should I laugh or cry ?... no idea really
3guesses to verbumSapienti
5 Sep 16#20
OK, well that item states that it is USB 2.0 not USB 3.0, and later goes on to say:
gadger100
4 Sep 16#11
Went for a 64gb one instead... Thanks
lowbacca
1 Sep 16#10
I've bought two of these in the past which I use for storing and playing large .mkv (6GB+) files and I'm very pleased with the performance.
Hot :smiley:
reddit
31 Aug 16#9
All 3 of mine top out at 25MBps for read and write but they are more reliable that the faster Grixx.
Crossbow
31 Aug 16#8
It's called aging :stuck_out_tongue:
I'm sure I remembered stuff much better just a year ago.
krisward7955
31 Aug 16#7
How on earth did I miss that... I know about the limitations on FAT/FAT32 and didn't even think to check
krisward7955
31 Aug 16#3
Terrible stick. Doesn't allow files over 4GB, very slow even on USB3, overheats
Crossbow to krisward7955
31 Aug 16#4
FAT/FAT32 won't allow files over 4Gb, so try reformatting it to NTFS, which will take care of this problem at least.
pavel76 to krisward7955
31 Aug 16#5
Faster than any other stick below £20... maybe Verbatim one posted earlier today is better ???
Sin_of_nature to krisward7955
31 Aug 162#6
Crossbow is correct. When you format it, you need to select either NTFS or exFAT. The 4GB is a limitation all USB sticks and hard disks will encounter if they are formatted as FAT32.
Speed wise, both mine reach 60-70 MB/s write speed which is pretty good. There has been other people who say theirs are slow so I don't know if its certain USB 3.0 chipsets or its a lottery to which version of this you get. The original version was pretty slow.
The only downside to these is they are undetected on 1 of my cheap Chinese USB 3.0 card ports and it is also not detected by my Game USB 3.0 powered hub.
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I know the ones you are on about but there are a few good ones around.
These sticks aren't just generic ones like those on eBay. I've got two of them and have achieved higher write speeds than they quoted themselves. Feel quite cool even during long transfers. Certainly not the fastest but definitely one of the most reliable ones I've owned.
Despite their claims of being units that have failed manufacturers testing, they are actually 8Gb, cleverly formatted to look larger.
you're all welcome.
Hot :smiley:
I'm sure I remembered stuff much better just a year ago.
Speed wise, both mine reach 60-70 MB/s write speed which is pretty good. There has been other people who say theirs are slow so I don't know if its certain USB 3.0 chipsets or its a lottery to which version of this you get. The original version was pretty slow.
The only downside to these is they are undetected on 1 of my cheap Chinese USB 3.0 card ports and it is also not detected by my Game USB 3.0 powered hub.