Re: Fake memory sticks?
- From: "Siddhartha Jain" <reach.siddhartha@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2005 07:38:42 -0700
BJ in Texas wrote:
> Siddhartha Jain <reach.siddhartha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> || imbsysop wrote:
> ||| On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:27:26 GMT, "BJ" <bjtexas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ||| wrote:
> |||
> ||||
> |||| "Siddhartha Jain" <reach.siddhartha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> |||| message
> ||||
> news:1125435840.780423.290990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ||||| Hi,
> |||||
> ||||| I bought a 1GB Sony memory stick pro for ~US$88, here in
> ||||| Bombay, for my Sony W7. Later, I complained to the dealer
> ||||| from whom I bought the camera (not the stick) that he was
> ||||| asking too much for the stick (he had quoted $128)!! He
> ||||| said I must've bought one of those fake memory sticks. I
> ||||| was amused since I didn't know there were fake ones around
> ||||| too. I was under the impression that semiconductor
> ||||| fabrication units cost a lot of money making them
> ||||| unaffordable to anyone but large manufacturers (who are
> ||||| very interested in branding them). Ofcourse, I could be
> ||||| wrong. But just in case its a fake, is there anyway to
> ||||| tell a fake memory stick pro from a genuine one?
> |||||
> ||||| - Siddhartha
> |||||
> ||||
> |||| Put it in the camera, if it works it is a genuine fake.
> ||||
> |||| Many branded memorys are over priced. Many of the third
> |||| party
> |||| memories (ones that your dealer will likely call fake) are
> |||| just as
> |||| good (many made at the same factories as the branded ones).
> |||| Branded memory modules like Sony and Canon are bought from
> |||| a third party and relabeled.
> |||
> ||| .. unless el cheapo 512M (or lower?) were relabeled "1Gb" in
> ||| some
> ||| obscure backyard factory, then you would be buying very
> ||| expensive
> ||| memory sticks ... as said it happened before in
> "electronics"
> ||| industry, a lot of customers are very easy to fool ..
> ||| FWIW
> ||
> || Well, it shows 949MB after being formatted in the camera with
> || FAT filesystem. Also, Sony W7 does 640x480 @ 30fps only on
> || Sony Memory
> || Stick Pro (not the regular memory stick). So I checked that
> || too and the videos came out at 640x480 @ ~30fps. The thing I
> || have been warned about
> || is that these *fake* sticks turn turtle pretty soon or are
> || prone to
> || data corruption.
> ||
> || - Siddhartha
>
> Sony has never made a memory stick, they have them made by a
> third party manufacturer. They likely have the third-party
> manufacturer
> label them even. This is common practice among brand name
> companies.
> Just a hand full of companies manufacture all memory.
Thats exactly my point. Lets say Sony OEM's the sticks from Sandisk
then the sticks would sell under Sony's and Sandisk's brand names.
Sandisk wouldn't have much reason to flood the market with Sony
labelled sticks at half the price. Just giving an example. It could be
Lexar or some other big manufacturer supplying the sticks but whoever
it is won't flood the market with much cheaper *fakes*. So I am more
inclined to think that the dealer was bluffing about the *fakes* sticks
just because he couldn't offer the same deal. But then again, I would
be able to tell only once my memory stick has lasted atleast six
months.
- Siddhartha
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