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terabyte microsd card for 32.99 by the way guys just so that you don't have any doubt to prove that these are real i've actually been buying these things for all of our cameras we are going to save a fortune or maybe not you could save a fortune with matt weldon mac weld makes great underwear t-shirts socks wallets and more and they last for a long time they believe in simple shopping if you use code tech tips you'll get 20 off at the link below in all seriousness though guys i i did actually buy a couple of these cards but only for the purpose of shedding some light on these fake capacity scams and showing you how they work so um let's rip this open and take a closer look at what arrived in the mail so our card in particular here looks like a verbatim card on the outside down to even the little uh the little v logo in the corner let's get this this baby opened up or at least it would mostly look like it if it weren't for this like weird serif font here that you often find on cheap chinese devices which actually sorry side note here like if you think about it it's so ridiculous like obviously they weren't gonna pay for an expensive fawn but it's not like they paid verbatim to rip off their logo either why can't they pirate a decent looking font and then the weirdest thing is like if you look really close the letters are fine it's just the numbers like they didn't have numbers in their font pack and while we're at it why is the year on here chinese pirates it's like you're not even trying so moving back to our packaging here for a second there's some claims here high speed high performance waterproof shock proof those are pretty dubious claims and oh this is interesting wow that's funny so it claims 2 000 songs in the mp3 format that's actually uh probably our first hint and then our second hint is going to be this ean code down here so it's eight six oh five six three six zero one zero and if we punch that into google first hit here is oh the plot thickens a 32 gig micro sdhc that happens to look well similar it's got the same outer packaging here as the one that we got but then our card has the ripoff verbatim markings and then actually this looks the same too now there's also apparently uh a listing for like a sandisk usb drive or something like that but either way it's not looking good for this card you know what though i'm gonna keep an open mind so let's go ahead and give it a shot alright so it showed up and boom look at that check this capacity out 976 gigs and uh Anthony has actually already preloaded a couple of files on here just to show that it does in fact work i might need my tinfoil hat back after all it's a conspiracy it's the corporations look at this works just fine so far so let's go ahead and grab maybe a bigger file pop this on here oh woof oh that is that is not an impressive speed what how fast is this thing supposed to be i believe it says class 10 class 10. uh is that 10 plus or is that class 10 and a free adapter that's class 10 and if you have a free adapter all right you never know height speed that's higher than high you know high height height um actually no to class 10 is 10 megabytes per second sustained per second okay all right all right okay in fairness to them this is indeed ish 10 10-ish i mean not really but let me get a close up i've seen class 10 cards that are a hell of a lot faster than this yeah that's the minimum write speed so like class 10 in 2006 i mean it must be legit right like these guys have got 93 positive feedback like they've actually got positive reviews here in morocco and they've got they've got reviews going back like a year very good seller delivers what promises best new one terabyte microsd i'm happy with the item i was ordered i can recommend this seller this seems that shopping cost too high positive feedback um okay buy all your codes here ooh that sounds legit awesome price seller very helpful would recommend buy all your codes here council my order instead i'd have to pay more for taxes that's the negative review Anthony thinks it's overwriting existing data and what what did i say i thought it was oh yeah i thought it might just be like some weird like caching thing because we were copying off of a network drive that clearly isn't it so okay yeah you're probably right then so oh crap and naturally the file that i copied is one that we're not going to be able to play back it's an mov i mean i didn't think okay so that works oh wow when you copy from the oh it's even worse how because we can't check these vms i i really like i feel like i'm just watching paint dry right now like i'm watching files transfer but like it's fascinating and i just i can't look away from it because i don't know what wizardry this is is this like a lotto thing some of them are fake every once in a while they ship a real one so they get a positive review i don't like they don't exist what is going on here okay so as we can see if you open up one of the files we copied that were originally there yeah because it's 47.4 gigs yeah and if we open up one of those files they're still there so it wasn't overwritten it didn't overwrite it so that was that's my my theory out the window and obviously we still have uh you know another 920 gigs so allah looks good right yeah uh yeah but these copies that we made everything we can't transfer over after future gigs it's fake it's fake okay so then what what why all right so let's explain what's going on here the highest capacity legit micro sd card at the time of writing actually huh it's convenient i have one right here is this 512 gig from what are they called integral that's right and one of these is gonna run you a few hundred dollars so obviously those thirty dollar sd cards that we bought off ebay are scams but here's the thing if the cards arrived and they were just completely non-functioning plastic dummies or if they showed up in people's computers as 32 gigs well they would immediately leave negative feedback and file for a return through ebay's buyer protection leaving the scammers with no money for their effort in fact they would lose money because they would have had to send something like even a plastic you know empty junk costs something so that is why they designed them to misreport you pull up the capacity thing again and it's like very convincing but how are they doing this so this scam is as old as sd cards themselves be they full-sized ones or micro ones inside every sd card as you might expect is flash memory along with a microcontroller so there are at least two chips even on one of these tiny little guys and that microcontroller is really really small it manages communication with a host device like a pc or camera and it has information like the total size the physical layout the vendor id the product id the serial number the date of manufacture and all of this gets reported to the host device and the microcontroller acts as a go-between to fetch slash store data from the flash memory on the sd card it's not unlike an SSD controller in its overall functionality but it's much simpler in design and much lower in both power consumption and performance so then if you know how to program or that is reprogram the microcontroller you're able to modify what it reports to the host including the capacity and the vendor id making some well-made fakes these aren't particularly well made very difficult to identify or discover the problem with before your return window is up so our ean code investigation likely revealed the true nature of this beast which raises the question then i mean now that we're out our 30 dollars anyway is there a way for us to at least restore it to a working 32 gig model so we can at least get some use out of it in a word no in more words sort of actually so the card as it is will always report that it is one terabyte in size unless we had the expertise and the time to reprogram its microcontroller again but what we can do is we can create a small partition on it that we can then use normally though there are still some stumbling blocks that we could hit here so there are only a handful of factories in the world that make nand flash which means that there's a chance that this thing is slow but perfectly functional the issue is that we don't know where it came from so it could be from like a small chinese fab it could be from a reject bin and a legitimate one or it's even possible that it was produced during a so-called third shift when a legitimate factory that makes authorized goods starts up again at night without the brand owner's authorization and produces more of the same goods to sell out the back door often without the same degree of quality control so to figure out where exactly the flash is there are a couple of tools that we can use so there's h2 test w by heise hi sensor it's german please tyson okay probably that one is by far the most useful but f3 is an open source Linux alternative and HDD low level format tool by hd guru is also a pretty good bet now any partition creation tool that allows you to specify where the partition is placed on the card is going to help you do this but first there's a couple things you got to do you got to get anything important off of your fake sd card i mean it's just in general get everything off it as fast as you can but this whole process is going to wipe it anyway if you aren't sure how much usable space you have by the way h2 test w is the way to go takes a long time to run though so naturally we didn't run it but Anthony actually did some poking around figuring out where it should be so we're just going to kind of yolo it and make a 32 Gigabyte partition on the end of the card since earlier testing revealed that the beginning was unusable so how are we doing here so well actually here show them what you've done in disk management yeah sure so actually it ended up being the beginning of the card i thought it was the beginning oh yeah because as it turns out the higher sector counts that were giving me the um the good rights yeah were actually the beginning of the drive oh okay um so that's cool i guess we'll see if that works out and so this is just unallocated and it doesn't even show up in any way and this is now a 32 gig sd card basically i guess that leads us pretty tightly into our conclusion should you buy an sd card that you think might be fake in a word no in more words hell no instill more words yes but only for people that you really really don't like so be on the lookout guys for deals that look too good to be true from vendors that you don't recognize because remember even names that you know and trust like ebay aliexpress or even amazon mean nothing in cases where the brand that's actually shipping and selling the product is not affiliated with them and remember these guys allow pretty much anyone to sell on their platforms and not every scam may even be as obvious as the one we outlined today some of them for example might have half of their advertised capacity so you would have to write a lot of data to them before you would pick up on it or they might use slower flash meaning that your uhs two class card wouldn't be able to record 4k video properly in some cases the capacity and the performance might even be the same but then when you go and claim warranty service it turns out it was a counterfeit or a reject that's why we always recommend Linus brand flash memory products Linus brand flash memory products are upfront about being a complete and utter scam you can learn more at the link in the video description we actually may or may not actually do something in collaboration with a real like flash memory vendor so i don't know there might be something down there that might not but what i do know for sure is that this video is brought to you by freshbooks freshbooks is the small business accounting software custom built for how you want to work and it's a simple way to be more 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