Thread: 16gb microsd shows 964mb.
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choubbi is offline choubbi
2010-01-08 , 12:29
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#5
Originally Posted by RipTorn View Post
you should be able to check it with a partition editor and all that, I personally use gparted or fdisk in Linux (ubuntu live CDs make this easy). You should be able to see its size and all that before formatting.
That could be enough to see if it's a fake, but not enough to prove it's genuine.
I've bought a USB drive on eBay a while ago, supposed to be 16GB, it told the computer that it was really 16GB, but it wasn't.
Thanks to Paypal I got my money back.

I second the "stay away from eBay flash memory devices"