512GB kingston datatraveller?

[Jonwall]

Okay so someone i know decided to buy a bunch of cheap 64gb sd cards from a less than reputable source, they didnt get sd cards but instead got these kingston data travellers which are labelled as 512gb, and clearly chinese since 90% of the packaging is in chinese.

Both of us assumed these were simply misprints and were meant to say 512 MB, but sure enough you plug that drive in and its labelled as 499gb within windows. Formatting to ntfs fails, formatting to exfat simply because it was the only other option in win7 WORKS. Meanwhile for some reason it will randomly get errors when copying, the error says "An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem. Error 0x80070570: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

Something is clearly not right about this drive lol, but im wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like it?


Edit: Okay so i had about 2.6gb copied to the drive then it started crapping out. Running a scan on the device just locks up. Performing a quick format of exfat works, but normal format just goes nowhere, write speeds are around 7MB/s

[odis172]

Did you mean 64MB sd cards? There are 64gig sd cards but they are by no means cheap.

I haven't seen anything like that, but lets just say I wouldn't trust my data on it. I say return it or junk it.

[RLP06]

It's because they're fake. They're hacked to show 512GB, but in actuality, they have WAY WAY WAY less memory, and if you care about your files, you should not put it on any of these drives.

[AkG]

Yup. Its a fake. Kingston as this time doesn't sell a 512GB flash drive. IIRC the biggest you can get is 256GB.
Hell even the "499" is a dead give away. 512GB would NOT be seen as 499. Obviously it has been messed with to report incorrect capacity. I'd crack one open. (I BET its been just epoxyed back together after THEY took it apart). See what the NAND inside is. But the best thing you can do is chuck em. IF you paid by CC or Paypal, report it as fraud and try to get your money back. Lesson of the day is: ALWAYS buy from peeps you trust and NEVER from someone you think is shadey. IF you get a gut feeling something is wrong....go with your gut. ;)

[Jonwall]

Originally Posted by AkG

Yup. Its a fake. Kingston as this time doesn't sell a 512GB flash drive. IIRC the biggest you can get is 256GB.
Hell even the "499" is a dead give away. 512GB would NOT be seen as 499. Obviously it has been messed with to report incorrect capacity. I'd crack one open. (I BET its been just epoxyed back together after THEY took it apart). See what the NAND inside is. But the best thing you can do is chuck em. IF you paid by CC or Paypal, report it as fraud and try to get your money back. Lesson of the day is: ALWAYS buy from peeps you trust and NEVER from someone you think is shadey. IF you get a gut feeling something is wrong....go with your gut. ;)

Heh yeah thats the EXACT same idea i had when he told me they were 512gb. Ive also noticed a typo on the packaging just now, not to mention the packaging is missing a bunch of things the normal kingston products have. I think ill crack this one open just to see whats really in there.

And he said hes learned his lesson already about buying from shady sources lol.

Edit: Okay they used a TINY amount of epoxy to hold it together, crap came apart like nothing lol. Main chip inside says StarRam FTM40AW-1.9A 1108. Has a white marking on the chip as well which looks almost like an n and like it was added afterwards in chalk like substance lol.
Other chip on there is tiny and i cant even really make out what it says at this point

[crazyhorsejohnny]

If your buddy bought it from a Canadian place I would contact RCMP or police.

[Jonwall]

Originally Posted by crazyhorsejohnny

If your buddy bought it from a Canadian place I would contact RCMP or police.

Was an online retailer located in chine somewhere, might have been over ebay because he mentioned something about paying attention to seller ratings in the future

[crazyhorsejohnny]

Originally Posted by Jonwall

Was an online retailer located in chine somewhere, might have been over ebay because he mentioned something about paying attention to seller ratings in the future

Play with fire and you get burned.