Thursday, February 22, 2007

Fake SD cards

Be all ye warned, of the fake SD cards available on Ebay. i recently purchased a AUD$20 2gig SD card from ebay. I thought sure why not, its cheap and nasty but it should be ok to store extra movies and MP3 on. The trouble all started when i tried to setup 2 partitions (effectivly cut the card size into 2) which althought i tried for 2 days to get it to work, would not work. Eventually i turned to good ol google and came up with the following link (here..)Basically what the sellers do is get a card of half the size and install a boot record from a larger card, when your device looks at it and sees a 2 gig card its actually only 1gig, even at 1 gig its not stable. i guess at the end of it all you really get what you pay for.

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