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| Thread ID: 122239 | 2011-12-10 03:28:00 | SSD Hard Drive | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1247926 | 2011-12-11 09:09:00 | me and the family have a lot of experiance buying from the asian resellers. I don't plan to buy some tripe from a place like Zhonguanchun though (even though that is impressive retail space!) Ill get something from a semi respectable retailer, the bigger demand from the large market means prices are about -$40 compared to NZ and with the HDD shortage they might be cheaper (or more expensive). EIther way if i'm over there I might as well save $40. Hopefully getting an SGS2 for $720 |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1247927 | 2011-12-11 10:11:00 | Hopefully getting an SGS2 for $720 Why not the Galaxy Nexus? :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1247928 | 2011-12-11 23:24:00 | Be careful what you buy in China - in early 2008 I bought a 32GB pen drive not available in NZ at that stage. Made the salesperson put it into a computer and load some files onto it - went fine but did not test taking it out and putting it back in. Found out later that all files corrupted and it was useless even after re-formatting. I think some places get the rejects off the end of production lines and package them nicely for the unsuspecting customers. They would have taken a 256MB drive or something, and messed with the firmware so it would report itself to your OS as 32GB. Of course anything you write over the real capacity will be corrupted and lost. There is a program for scanning fake flash drives and modifying them to the correct size they actually are, so that you can at least use them, even if you can't use them for much. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1247929 | 2011-12-11 23:48:00 | Something like this3439 | Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1247930 | 2011-12-11 23:59:00 | Yeah they were a major issue a while ago. Only buy from a reputable source ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1247931 | 2011-12-12 00:10:00 | @Lawrence no - that's the fake 500Gb hard drive that actually had a 128 meg flash drive (and the large nuts to give it the weight of a hard drive) the "special firmware" on it made it "loop" so once the 128 meg was used, it would just start at the beginning again, overwriting everything once again! - the most you could actually store was 128 meg The fake 32GB pen drives johnd is referring to are actually 1 or 2 gig drives that have their own "special firmware" that shows non-existent sectors similar to these Kingston ones (http://thefake32gbs.blogspot.com/) for example |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1247932 | 2011-12-12 00:28:00 | Happens with either SSD or flash drive except the nuts are smaller in Flash Drives:thumbs: | Lawrence (2987) | ||
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