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Memory sticks from eBay: The truth!

Posted Apr 19, 2006 at 10:23AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Accessories, News, Reviews Tags: psp accessories, psp gift ideas, psp memory sticks

Considering buying a new Memory Stick Pro Duo? Be sure to read this first. You may have read about the Real vs Fake: Inside the memory sticks article, which tells you the differences between the real and fake Sony memory sticks. Now that you know how to spot a real memory stick from a fake one, lets see how the fake stick bought from eBay levels up to the real thing in practice.

Before we start, I'd like to give a little bit of background. Before I made the purchase, I did what every eBayer should do before buying an item such as this - I spoke directly to the seller. I popped the question straight away, and asked the seller 'Are your memory sticks genuine Sony?' To my amazement, he came right out and said, no, they are fakes. Obviously, the seller doesn't say in his auction that they are fake, but he did admit that he does tell anyone that asks that his are fake. He also told me any seller claiming to be selling genuine memory sticks on eBay are probably lying.

This gave me a small insight into the minds of the fake memory stick sellers. Maybe they're not the scamming devils that I first thought they were. After further questioning, the seller gave me even more information, telling me that most of the chips from his memory sticks are made by Toshiba, although because they are fake some will have been made by other manufacturers. I questioned the reliability of these memory sticks, to which the seller simply responded check my feedback.

Although I will not reveal any numbers in order to protect the sellers identity, he is a very big seller of memory sticks on eBay UK, and has an amazing level of feedback. The seller also told me that these sticks do not store less than the official Sony cards, and that the fake cards actually have a slightly higher transfer speed. Of course, I won't be taking the sellers word for it, I'll be testing both these factors out later.

I received my 'new' 1gb Memory Stick Pro Duo through the post just 3 days after I bought it from ebay. My first impressions were: pretty good. The memory stick came Blister packed, and came with what must have been a ripoff of officially Sony documentation. How do I know this? The cover that comes in the Blister pack was clearly marked as Sony, with the 1GB memory stick Pro Duo, and all the 1GB markings on the front. If I turn the cover over, it has the specifications for a 2GB memory stick on it. Nothing you wouldn't expect when buying a fake stick.

The Memory stick itself isn't that bad of a copy. To the untrained eye it looks pretty legitimate, however if you look closely at the joints you can see where it has been glued together, but no glue was coming out of the joints - which is a good sign. Now for the practical test - in the PSP!

Firstly, despite the rumours, the memory stick was recognised by my PC straight away without formatting. Of course, the memory stick was completely empty, but it was recognised by my PC and I could write to it. I then formatted the memory stick from my PSP, everything was going smoothly. Now, lets test the speed of it compared to my trusty old 32mb Sony stick. For the test data, I have selected some .Mov videos, which totaled 26.1Mb in file size.

First up: The 'fake' 1GB stick
Time: 51.70 seconds.

Secondly: The 32mb genuine Sony stick
Time: 42.22 seconds

As you can see, the 1GB stick got thrashed by the tiny 32mb genuine Sony stick, with a difference of almost 10 seconds. This difference could just be down to the size of the memory sticks. As I did not use a 1GB genuine stick to compare to, these results are not what you'd call 'scientific'.

Now the second test: storage. My fake 1GB stick has a user capacity of 969Mb according to both Windows and the PSP. A genuine Sony 1GB memory stick pro duo according to Amazon, holds just 940MB.

This brings us to a tie. The genuine Sony stick stands up to the fake on transfer speed, but the fake provides an extra 19MB of storage space. My advice to you? Go with whatever your comfortable with. Another advantage of fake memory sticks, and for most people the weighing factor, is the price. You have the choice, get a cheaper stick with more storage space, or get a more expensive stick with the Sony guarantee and slightly faster transfer speed.

Whatever you choose to do, don't rule out either possibility. The people that sell the fake sticks aren't monsters, and the ones that i have dealt with don't lie about the legitimacy of their sticks. If your unsure about a stick on eBay, don't be afraid to ask the seller - it may prove useful in the future. Just because it's fake, doesn't mean it's bad. Do be vigilant though. as with most things that are cheap, you can't always be sure what your getting. I may have been lucky with mine, and other fake sticks may have a slower transfer rate, less storage, and be bad quality. If you have any doubts, I'd still advise you to buy genuine Sony or Sandisk.

I will tell you if my newly-bought 1GB stick breaks at any time in the near future, and I apologise for the bad quality of my digital camera!

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I've had my 2GB fake memory stick for 2 months now and its been working perfectly and has no sign of ever breaking. However, I love to see these influential articles, cuz each time "fake" memory stick articles come up, "fake" memory sticks go down in price. Can't wait to get my fake 4GB memory stick for $50 in a few months!

# lol, burn — Guest 2006-04-19 11:45

sony got burnt capacity wise... i can't wait for fake 4 gig and even faker 8 gigs, may even be affordable by those pesky 9 th graders... DIE!!!

# lmfao — Guest 2006-04-19 12:10

im in 8th and i have 2gig(fake), works fine

# - — sleestak 2006-04-19 12:12

76% of all statistics generated from the internet are false

# statistics — Guest 2006-04-19 12:17

statistics can be made to say anything, 74% of all people know that.

# ...heh — DDark 2006-04-19 12:18

How's the lifespan on them?

# Don't Buy Memory Sticks of eBay! — Guest 2006-04-19 12:18

to #8: You just got lucky. 2 of my friends bought fake memory sticks off ebay a few weeks ago (1 got a 1gb, the other 2gb). My friend that got the 1gb said his didn't work from the second he got it. My friend that got the 2gb said his was working perfectly up until a couple days ago when all of a sudden some of his savedata became corrupted for no reason. You shouldn't trust memory sticks off ebay. Buy em from trusty retailers where you know your getting genuine products. Yeah, my friends got their memory stick considerably cheaper, but it was worth it for me, cuz my still works perfectly, and it has for the past 6 months! (:

# >> — Guest 2006-04-19 12:19

Thanks for the heads up. I never would have know that Fake memory sticks even existed. Any ways Thanks

# so — Guest 2006-04-19 12:23

I only paid $60 for my sony 1GB stick since a friend of mine works as abc warehouse. Just buddy up with someone in an electronics store and save 40 bones.

# Transfer Speeds — WDUK 2006-04-19 12:24

I would like to add the fact that a genuine 1GB memory stick would also have a slower speed than a genuine 32MB stick.

I had a PSP value pack, with a 32MB card, and the speeds were fairly decent. I part-exchanged that pack for a Giga pack, with a 1GB stick, and although the speeds were still good, there was an obvious slowdown.

A very good report here, I have always been a bit warey on buying fakes, but this kinda 'taints' the fear lol

#15: Your friend with the corrupted Savedata, well it might not be the fake card. I have had that problem with a genuine stick, most of my Savedata became corrupt (Including my 95% GTA save 'grrrr')

I dunno why it occured, but I formatted it and started using it fresh. I find doing a defrag on the sticks can help a little bit =)

Regards

WDUK

# errrrrr — Guest 2006-04-19 12:25

its called print screen

# $60 is a lot for 1GB these days — Guest 2006-04-19 12:26

You can get a genuine 2GB one off ebay for $58 buy it now off ebay. Just search for genuine 2GB memory stick.

# 32 to 1gb??? — Guest 2006-04-19 12:27

You can't compare the speed of a 32mb to a 1gb stick. The 1gb is going to be slower, legit or not. Check previous ms articles to see that. If you buy one u suspect to be fake, and it breaks. Speak to the seller. most sellers will replace no questions. Heck could even get away with sending it to sony hahahahah

# Hey — zMastaa 2006-04-19 12:31

Good info, id go for the fake IDC!

# I wanna see bad stories of fake memory sticks — Guest 2006-04-19 12:31

I haven't seen any articles on a fake memory stick breaking or losing data unexpectedly. Can someone show me 1, cuz all this is BS and getting memory stick retailers on ebay less money.

# I bought 3 fakes — Guest 2006-04-19 12:36

I bought a fake after I got my psp last year and it still working fine, no problem at all. I bought 2 more last christmas for my little brother and cousins and all of theirs still work perfectly. So to me its worth the lower price and lower speed because come on now 10 seconds? do a transfer and walk away.

# There are.... — Guest 2006-04-19 12:38

There are some memory stick duos that dont have lasered numbers on the back that are indeed real. I bought a Sandisk 2 gig from circuit city (which was solid blue). It had printed numbers on the back. It was definatly real. So not all unprinted sticks are fake. Fake sticks aren't even bad. I feel that this test was done like *****. They should have been a gig and a fake gig. File times vary by stick because it has much more to read at a time on a gig than a 32 meg.

# My 2gb is now a 1gb — caldiablo 2006-04-19 12:38

yeah i got a 2gb from ebay and everything was working fine for about 3 months but then my saves got corrupt once or twice. but the worst part is that a few weeks later i couldn't transfer big files over to my psp, i would always end up with a cyclic redundancy check and it would stop. Now i've come realize that this happens when ever i go past almost 1gb of data on the stick. so be warned I know i learned my lesson it's best to just buy legit.

# fake = better — Guest 2006-04-19 12:38

My assumably fake memstick is great. I got the 2 giger from ebay for 80 (that includes shipping) works great, and even has more storage capacity than the regular one is *supposed* to have.

# fake — Dave 2006-04-19 12:39

I bought a 2GB stick from ebay 2 days ago, its fake alright. But damn, it works really good. 1959mb on it and it transfers at 6MB/s instead of 8MB/s.

I have a real legit sony 1GB which holds 949MB and it goes at 8MB/s and beats this 2GB. But the 2GB works fine for me with no problems.

I recommend these fakes, they work just fine!

(also, even if the ebay sellers say they are genuine, its pretty damn likely they are lying!)

# "My advice to you? Go with whatever your comfortable with." — yeskia 2006-04-19 12:49

you could've just said that without the whole article

# go wit SAN DISK — Guest 2006-04-19 12:51

I've tested out a genuine 1 gb from Sony. I've tested out a 1 gb from San Disk. The San disk was better than the sony one in every way. it was faster, held more memory, and it had another color besides black (not dissin black, its my favorite color). But then i tested it wit a fake 1 gb. It held more than the sony one, but it was slower. But the san disk one still kicked its arse, wit more memory than the fake, and faster speed, if you have to choose one, go wit sand disk. i have all three, they are all really good, but still, san disk gives the max results...

# Sandisk all the way — IronBob 2006-04-19 12:53

Personally i just buy sandisk memory sticks. Not as cheap as an ebay one but at least you know your buying quality. Plus if it breaks you can take it back.

# 2 gb bought on ebay! — Guest 2006-04-19 13:00

never had a problem and does it job! holds what it says it will! thanks to the ebayer that sold it to me for 50 bucks!

# THE REAL TRUTH ! — Guest 2006-04-19 13:06

The real truth is that the company making fake sticks are ripping off Sony and taking money away from them. Yes, Sony is a big company but it does not mean it is ethically right. Sony spent years and years on building its reputation only to have some guy on Ebay rip them off and use their name for a product that is in no way supported by Sony, no matter what the package says.

That is the real truth. Asking whether a real memory stick compared to a fake one is not the right question because it is inherently wrong and illegal. If they called the memory stick Soney or something stupid like that, sure why not but this is an outright copyright infringement and I am ashamed that you will condone this practice BUT will not allow others to post ISO links. Hypocrites!

# My memory stick — Guest 2006-04-19 13:09

940? I guess that means mine is real.

But very overpriced.

# speaking of write speed.. — Guest 2006-04-19 13:15

speaking of transfer speeds, the black sandisk ultra2 whips the lamma's ass at 9MB/s sustained write (over a usb2 writer).

# i agree — Guest 2006-04-19 13:42

i got an 2GB memory stick , witch i bought from ebay, i am sur at 100% its a fake, in 4 months didnt break , never hade any problems

# ok, so what? — Guest 2006-04-19 13:42

oh my god...

every time someone posts anything about memory sticks, everyone starts to discuss transfer speeds! Why does it even matter? as someone above already said, it's not like you're gonna be in a "transfer race" with anybody, so then why does it matter if one stick can write 10 seconds faster than the other??

come on guys, open your eyes!

my 2 cents.

-droolingdonkey

# .. — cory1492 2006-04-19 13:46

"The real truth is that the company making fake sticks are ripping off Sony and taking money away from them. "

In a way I agree, but when I had to pay 45USD for a 8MB memory card for my PS2 when I could easily buy a 512MB SD card for less... well - Im not big on sponsoring them to continue to force such products on people.

Cheers for the fakes, it forces Sony to realistically price their products OR waste more time and money on yet another form of Magic Gate/DRM and try to overprice that till qulaity fakes pop up.

# fogot to mention — cory1492 2006-04-19 13:48

The fact of the matter is that Sony uses the same chip manufacturers for the end product - they just mark it up at retail by a hell of a lot more.

# fake? — Guest 2006-04-19 13:57

I got a 2g ms from ebay and depackagin was shown in english but wen i got it de pakagin was in CHINESE

# hmm — Guest 2006-04-19 14:06

ok i bought a giga pack and it came with all authentic crap right cause i bought it at circuit city. i been usin it a while but my psp and computer reads it as 846 mb and i have 712 mb of music and 117 mb of homebrew and it says i got 141 free does this mean mine is fake?

# Number 35 — Guest 2006-04-19 14:07

In case you're wondering, I payed 80 dollars for it at EBgames. Told you it was overpriced. And this was like last month or so.

# w00t d00d — Guest 2006-04-19 14:23

I got a 2GB Sony High Speed MS PRO Duo for AUD$140 (RRP: AUD$510) off eBay, I didn't ask him if it was fake but it went prteey good...

# . — Guest 2006-04-19 14:31

I bought a fake one. Doesn't even fit into my PSP properly. I sent it back and got another, but once again it didn't fit. So I just jammed it in, and it's worked since. It works though.

# bah — Guest 2006-04-19 14:35

juuuuh.... i'll buy whatever's cheaper. screw sony, they're arrogant *****s.

"PS2 IS ENTERTAINMENT FFRRGGGG"

# .. — Guest 2006-04-19 14:35

By the way, you do realise that the speed of transfer would also be effected by what programs/processes your computer was running at the time of the tests.

# i got a fake 2gb — Guest 2006-04-19 14:41

I never acually checked to see if mine was a fake until i say his package looked just like mine i can see somewhat the glue and they didn't sand off the extra plastic when they made the cassing but the stick hasent came unglued like my sandisk stick.

the preformace is great i havent ever noticed a diffrent in the write/read speeds i have had it for about 5 months and use it about every day because i play my games off the stick its so much easier not carrying around the disks. I would say go ahead and buy the fakes.

# WTF??? — Guest 2006-04-19 14:44

"I got a 2g ms from ebay and depackagin was shown in english but wen i got it de pakagin was in CHINESE"...

Do you even know what english is?

It es de langage dat u r trashign!

# crsdr — Guest 2006-04-19 14:49

who cares i'm getting the fake one

# esta mierda — Guest 2006-04-19 14:54

estos chinos son pura mierda

don't trust chinesse, those MS sucks

# FAKE ONE SUX — Guest 2006-04-19 15:06

i got a 2gig memory stick from ebay (with adaptor) and it does not work right at all. first of all the adapter is not compatible; second the memorystick worked fine for about a day and then it came to a point where it would not write anything correctly after 1.2gig - 1.7 gig. of course the seller replaced my stick (i had to pay an extra $5 for shipping) and this time the stick took 45min for my psp to read it and the adapter still doesnt work. the adapter works for my 256mb, my 32mb, and my 1gig fine but the 2gig was a no go. i tried all i could to keep the 2gig but unfortunately i had to return for a full refund also losing about $7 in shipping costs. maybe i was just unlucky and got two bad memorysticks in a row.

# f u spanish *****a — Guest 2006-04-19 15:14

nocomment

# Good sellers? — Guest 2006-04-19 15:17

Can someone refer me a seller they've had good experience with? I'm interested in purchasing a fake, but don't want to end up with one that doesn't work at all :)

# EB Games — Guest 2006-04-19 15:35

I got my sandisk 1 gig @ EB for $54. You can get a 2 gig there for $89.

# 34. » THE REAL TRUTH ! — Guest 2006-04-19 17:15

HAHAHA #34 self righteous prick! welcome to PsP updates! the supercenter of homebrew! don't try to play it off like you're any better than us, if you had any true ethics you wouldn't even be on this sight as it violates the sony eula to download any of these programs. and we all know you download your porn and music off a P2P (great place to get roms). so quit *****in about fake memory sticks, sony sticks are overpriced and I hope this will open their eyes and give them something else to fight.

what's unethical is sony's vendetta against homebrew, I know I didn't shell out 300 hard earned dollars for a gadget that I can only use in ways they see fit, pirating ISO's is wrong pirating super nintendo games doesn't hurt any of the game developers because the games are out of print, it only hurts the pre-played game market (and lets face it, that crap is getting way overpriced. screw sony and buy a fake, or buy a fake and send it back to sony, I wonder how long it will take them to just come out and admit they've been duped!

# not such a useful comparison... — Guest 2006-04-19 17:45

how can you really make a valid comparison between a fake 1gb and a legit 32?! come back when you have a fake 32 or a real 1gb...

# Mine Fake? — Guest 2006-04-19 17:58

Mine might be fake (2gb stick)... do I really care? Nope. I paid very little for it, it holds the proper amount (so I can fit anything that will ever come out on psp on it) and transfer speeds... I dont really care, didnt notice a diff between my 512 sandisk and my 2gb (possibly fake) sony. Reliable as well, never a single problem, never a single corrupt save, movie, game or homebrew.

# actualy im enixidfrag — Guest 2006-04-19 18:45

i got a 2 GB a while ago (probably fake) it works fine it was in Chinese packaging and i am coninualy transfering files to and from it and no problems. i think the thing is that now these new sellers and what not are selling really shady ones so make sure you get one from someone with impecable feedback and if you wont search eBay for items that me enixidfrag has bought and u should get the seller i bought mine from

# #44 — Guest 2006-04-19 18:50

w00t d00d u got ripped off! all sony 2gb high speed sticks are fake on ebay

w00t!

You pretty much paid 60 dollars too much, w00t! w00t!

w00t d00d w00t!

suck sht!

# Whos gives a ***** about slow transfers!? — Guest 2006-04-19 19:23

Id rather have 2GB for cheap than spend loads on one thats a lil bit quicka!

***** that, im going to ebay

# wow — Guest 2006-04-19 19:38

i have a japanese fake 1gb card and the transfer is more faster compared to the original 1gb included in the giga pack!

Also my memory have 979mb available (the original have 956)

good buy

# Speaking of overpriced — Guest 2006-04-19 20:01

If you think Sony sticks are overpriced, don't you think the fakes are overpriced? (since the 1GB fakes only cost 2,800 Yen ($24 USD)).

It's the same thing as Ferrari selling a 355 vs. "eBay man" selling a NSX with a ferrari conversion kit.

Except the fact in this case, the fake (NSX) may last longer than the original.

# WHO TH F CARES?? — Guest 2006-04-19 20:57

This is GOOD for Sony.

# comparison — Guest 2006-04-19 21:07

how the hell can the writer compare 1GB fake with 32MB genuine?~! there's a difference what~

# 989Mb :O — Guest 2006-04-19 21:15

Mine has 989Mb of capacity. Is it "very fake"? lol

# 2GB Memory Stick — Guest 2006-04-19 21:24

Hey seeeing this info I Might get a 2GB from Ebay Coz My Offical PSP 1 GB Memory Stick (ones from giga pack) Keeps Getting Filled with lots of movies and its in the smallest compressed size around 220mb

# rubbish article — Guest 2006-04-19 22:41

What a waste of time this article is. OK, so eBay sellers pedal fake memory sticks. The author tested one single fake stick! That's hardly conclusive. Plus the tests themselves were a joke. Do some thorough research and testing then come back with an article worth reading.

# LOL — Guest 2006-04-19 23:28

This article is like most on pspupdates.com

It has a bit of info - that's about it.

No REAL review nor no real comparisons and no conclusion can be done about this.

I think it's great for somebody that has a web site as hobby and spends an hour here and there that you give us this info!

# @\/@ — Guest 2006-04-19 23:33

heh 99.9% of the posters are "Anonymous Coward" lol

I don't care if its fake as long as it has similar, same or better quality. Screw everything else; they say "DON'T BUY FAKES" just becuase $0ny doesn't get any profit. It's the same with Video, Music and Game piracy. "Home taping and Napster is killing music." so what?

# there are problems with them... — NeilR 2006-04-19 23:44

There are many examples in the PSP General Help section of the forums of people who have had their fakes fail after a few writes. It's not just about profit; it's about spending your money wisely.

# Real 1GB Memory Stick — Guest 2006-04-20 00:10

I have a real 1GB Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo, which came with my Giga Pack, and it holds 956MB just so ya know...

# my 2GB stick works fine so far — Guest 2006-04-20 00:17

Had my 2GB fake stick a day and it works :) i've filled it up with homebrew like BOR and it's Mods aswell as Doom and some of it's more popular mods, it works i can't deny that :)

# My 2 gb Stick — Guest 2006-04-20 00:53

I bought a 2 gb stick from eBay and it worked for a while but after maybe 4 months it got worse and worse until now it wont work at all. It keeps giving me a formating error.

# This is PIRACY — Guest 2006-04-20 01:07

Why is this site is openly promoting the sale and purchase of fake Memory Sticks? This is PIRACY - don't openly support and promote it. This type of thing hurts Sony's sales, is not good for the industry and supporting this type of piracy re-enforces the stigma that everyone involved in this hobby are in it for solely piracy reasons.

Would you promote the sale of fake UMD movies and games? It's the same thing.

# Had A 2 Gig For A While — Guest 2006-04-20 02:11

I have had a fake 2 Gig for almost 6 months now and must say it was worth the 85 USD I paid for it. Seriously, this 2 gig is 100% reliable, I've never had a problem with it. Just the storage alone has put a smile on my face

# 3.00? — Guest 2006-04-20 02:26

\When is 3.00 comin' out??

# Not very useful — MrWorf 2006-04-20 02:41

Statements like "A genuine Sony 1GB memory stick pro duo according to Amazon, holds just 940MB" is worthless since it isn't any kind of proof. You just assume that Amazon has correct information, which they might or might not. Especially sizes are prone for rounding errors.

It would have been better to stick with the details on how it worked, etc, instead of comparing it to a memorystick which has a completely different makeup (32MB 1GB). Now we don't really know if the fake ones are better or worse than the real ones.

On another note, my SanDisk Memorystick PRO Duo 1GB card shows as 949MB in Windows.

# adf — Guest 2006-04-20 03:33

you guys are *****gots i have a fake memory stick it works better than the sony one itself a 2 gig fake stick i got for 70 dollars it works fine

# adsf — Guest 2006-04-20 03:56

Once again... kyle m.'s stupidity shows.

We see a third article about fake memory sticks (honestly one was enough) and does some "testing" and comes to an invalid conclusion stating that fake memory sticks are good.

Get your head out of your ass Kyle. How the hell you've become a blogger on pspupdates is beyond me.

# Maths — Guest 2006-04-20 04:11

Fake stick: 969MB

Real stick: 940MB

Quote, "the fake provides an extra 19MB of storage space."

Something seems wrong here, but I can't put my finger on what... ;)

# 2 gig — Guest 2006-04-20 04:17

I bought a fake and orignal sony hig speed memory sticks from Ebay.

Orignal= 72 pounds

Fake= 38 pounds

For advice i say go for original as the transfer rate hurts when it comes to large file.

# no se si sera buena ono la copia peroo... — Guest 2006-04-20 04:49

i buy this memory 2gb and not problem to my money the great problem is a psp and games and 2gb etc...price ,i speak bad, its a full.

# Awesome. — Guest 2006-04-20 05:59

Strange that memory sticks with 2314 megs aren't mentioned in the fake memory stick articles. I bought one from ebay and it still works.

# cool — Guest 2006-04-20 06:40

thanks for the info..interesting find.

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# cool — Guest 2006-04-20 06:41

thanks for the info..interesting find.

www.ortegaassociates.com

# actualy im enixidfrag — Guest 2006-04-20 08:44

# Damn it! — Guest 2006-04-20 09:26

Now memory sticks on ebay are going higher after this articles cuz people are realizing that they are perfectly fine. ): I wanted to get another 2GB off ebay just for more memory cuz a few days ago, I was seeing 2GB memory stick go for like $25 (plus $20 shipping).

# what eva — Guest 2006-04-20 10:52

juniors rule the world with 2 gig memory sticks

# 57 seconds? WTF — Guest 2006-04-20 11:33

57 seconds for a 21mb file??? i have a san disk and it takes all of 2 mins to transfer a 700mb iso!! whats goin on there

# Out performs — Guest 2006-04-20 11:37

I knew my 1gb duo was fake when it arrived.

It outperformed all the originals I have, so I decided to keep it.

# Interesting Read — Guest 2006-04-20 14:39

This article just creates more questions. Isn't the MS that came with the PSP was built for the PSP? Would it make a difference if you were to put the MS in a Digital Camera or something and then test it? Or maybe test 1 1GB "Geniune" stick compared to a 1GB "Fake" stick?

Anyways, I'm till going to buy a 2GB "Fake" stick off eBay.

# 99 — tjsynkral 2006-04-20 23:06

I got a very nice 2GB MSPD from eBay from a seller selling out of Hong Kong. It was genuine. There are good sellers on eBay.

Generally the people who are selling counterfeit items are the same people violating eBay's multi-listing and fee circumvention rules (meaning, if they list 100 memory sticks at $0.99 + $100.00 shipping... don't trust them).

# do ill take it or not — Guest 2006-04-23 11:28

guys once i saw a 2 GB memory stick (im sure it is fake) for 150 bucks i got the idea of something wrong on it

i dont know if i must buy it or not but the price sounds good also it says that it is a high speed one i have my doubts about it so if some one boughts a fake one i ll like to know if it work great in your psp in the pc and all of that stuff send me a e-mail to jair_macias@hot mail.com also if it doesnt work let me know i just wanna be sure to buy a good memory stick

# sanDisk — ynoty3k 2006-04-23 16:30

Phuckin *****s. I bought a 2gb pro duo off of ebay about a month ago, and until right now it never had any issues. I read the article, and judgin by the capacity, i assumed it must not be fake. No sooner than I had finished reading than the plastic cover phuckin broke off. Then i glued it back on, and will not show up in my PSP. It still shows up in my computer, and in my T9, but not PSP. Phuckin ghey!!!

(and I do know how to speak English, I just enjoy the alternative spellings available)

# Yea — Guest 2006-05-04 14:17

Always go for genuine, you can regret buyin fakes, because since the fakers' comanies have no consumer problems to worry about, they don't care if every unit works fine, but as far as eBay goes, I bought my actual PSP off there...

PS- Im not an "Anonymous Coward"

--Lenny

# genious — Guest 2006-05-09 00:06

youre alll lost causes get a life and get a job mo fos

# Mine Works Great — Guest 2006-05-16 14:30

Hey I picked up a 2 GB for $35.00 (plus shipping) on E-bay. To this day I do not know if it is real or a fake. Everything looked legit. All I know is that it works just as well as the 1Gb that I got with my GigaPack, with the bonus of more room. They also threw in a bonus free adaptor, which I use to put the 1Gb MSPD in my camera (it uses regular memory stick...guess what the adaptor works too.

I must be one of the lucky ones.

# fake suxx — Guest 2006-05-28 22:05

i bought a 1 gb pro duo high speed, my psp can't read it, to all filipino people don't buy memory stx at greenhills even if they only cost 2500 pesos (50 usd) they don't work ur psp can't read it

# EBAY — Guest 2006-06-01 13:54

The new Ebay & Amazon(many auctions) 2gb duo PRO memory sticks DO NOT WORK. There are no lucky ones.These people are promoting their own Ebay shops. Sandisk, Lexar , even "official Sony" products are unusable. Anyone buying a fake memory card will be bitterlt dissapointed!

# Late I know! — Guest 2006-07-17 11:34

just thought id say

ii got the same pack as #106

and my is working fine,

its a sandisk

my brother bought a sony fake

and it broke within the day

Yaaaaa sandisk Fakes

# 2gb fake — Guest 2006-07-30 16:42

My 2gb sony fake formats to 1979 in my psp and drops data after about a gig, just says all the data is corrupted.

# How important is your data? — Guest 2006-08-16 12:02

Yes, Sony's MS is a bit over priced. But there are licensed products like Sandisk who offers a reasonable price. Licensed products have to meet the same specs and QC as Sony's own. Plus these memory manufactures have been making memory chips for years. So they are just as good as Sony's.

Who knows what kind of QC standard (if there's any) the fake one has, and what kind of "short cuts" they used to make the these chips. The bottom line is, how important is your data to you? I wouldn't use the fake one for my European vacation. In fact, I wouldn't use any fake one period.

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