Real V.S. Fake - Inside The Memory Sticks |
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- The exterior of the genuine memory stick is abrasive, while the fake one feels slick.
The back of the genuine memory stick has some information sculpted by laser beam, not printed.
- The volume of genuine memory sticks is 480MB, while the fake on has only 468MB.
- Sony customer service center cannot tell if your memory stick is genuine or fake.

Left = Real; Right = Fake
- The genuine memory stick is hard to open up, while the fake one cracks up easily because it's not even glued well.
The genuine memory stick uses a Samsung flash memory chip, while the fake one uses an unknown chip (in fact with the text burnished away from the chips), which is inferior.

Genuine Sony Memory Stick Pro DUO 1GB
The most ironical thing happened to the author of this article, was that the lady in the Sony CS center replied him "Your (fake) memory stick is genuine, maybe you need to switch to another card reader." after he asked about his (fake) card not recognized by his computer. So, can we assume that even Sony cannot tell if the memory stick is real or fake? Sigh...
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Sony really need to sort out their priorities :?
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I do sometime worry about the inherent risk of the fake MS failing during a crucial FLASH load/wirte which may brick my PSP, but considering the actual risk of flash writing my PSP is exposed to and having the BestBuy replacement plan (it's worth the $39.99 cause I already used it once), I really don't care that much.
Plus there is always an endless supply of 1.50 PSPs at Costco, BJ's and Sam's Club.
Anyways I'm just killing time between classes. What is your general input on using/buying these fake MS Pro Duos?????
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P.S. being the good conservatives we are at this site... I know some baby keyboard warriors will be on my a$$ for saying this... but at the end all you wannabe goody two shoes steal, cheat and fake.
Cheers.
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my 1 gb sony card which was in my new buyed psp giga pack has the exactly same plastic and little cut on the edge like the fake on
and on my memory card the text on the back is also not laser sculped
so whats that for kind of bull***** that sony itself packs fake sony memory cards with the psp giga packs
or is this test just a fake ??
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I also read some stories that there are fake ones floating around which have data that tells the PSP it is 2gb while it actually has a 1gb chip inside!
My advice to you is: Do not buy at e-bay, but at a local store.
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Mine's Genuine, i can tell by the texture and the laser stuff... but it has even less storage space than the fake one, 460MB or so.
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No thats the same deal with hard drives too . Manufacturers counts 1 meg as 1000k instead of 1024k as windows does .
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Anyway, I will be using what I learned from this article next time I purchase a SONY memory stick. However, chances are I will stick to Sandisk brand since Sandisk memory sticks tend to provide better overall performance.
PS:
Could somebody please post an article detailing how to tell whether or not a Sandisk memory stick is real?
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it does hold 2gigs worth, but doesnt work w/ sonicstage. anyone else have that problem?
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Doesn't matter to me, my 1 gb Sandisk stick was waaay cheaper than the $ony sticks, so I say everyone buy Sandisk!
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another "ironical" thing is the spelling of that word, lol
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-Memory-Stick-Pro-Duo-Card-1G-1GB-1-GB-4-PSP-Camera_W0QQitemZ8275727586QQcategoryZ122516QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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are you on crack? lol, like dam wrong topic. and that topic was liek 2 weeks ago.
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Oh, and when I made my first post, it was towards the person who posted number one that said:
"Its sony
what do you expect?"
My post was directed towards that. I'm not saying every person in the entire world that works at Walmart is a complete dumb ass, but if you were to round up 10 of them, 70% of the time only one of them would know something about anything.
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http://www.ortegaassociates.com
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And there was a f****** fake.
First stick not boot,
Second have only 300mb total capacity
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but i can sympathisize for those people that paid full price for a fake one
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they are really well made fakes. LOL. 2 of them are better than the 3rd, and the build difference is noticeable, so there are more than one source of fake memory sticks in china.
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I've been using it for a few days, the write speed is a little slow, but I'm not using usb2.0 so my data transfer speed is prolly throttled by that. All of the data I've written to the card and shuffled around and various loading and saving of games and such hasn't broken the card yet.
I'm hoping that by the time it breaks, the 4gb cards will be affordable.
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but as long as they both works i guess
the 1GB is currently in my camera, still going strong
my 2GB is in my PSP, being used mainly for video playing (if i ever turned on my psp at all) and m... save games
firmware 2.00 forever!!!!
screw ISOs and pirates! ARRRRRRR matey!!
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Ok, I overreacted on you comment. After I read a few more times, it's like you say.
sorry
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MG doesn't function on fake memory stick.
Sony Japan confirmed my fake one as not their product.
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Anyone knows anything about the longevity of these fakes ones?
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-can not take it out of PSP (broken plastic cover)
-Not possible to down loa music, TV, film, etc... protected by magic gate
- trouble with Sonic stage (of course no magic gate in FAKE)
Of course there's no guarantee by Sony or no body.
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Otherwise I post this just to make all of you feel safe about Sandisk:
The inside chip was made in Taiwan while the outer shell was made in China and thier both printed on thier corresponding part so use the tranparency to your advantage.
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The best part here is that the fake seems to be as good as the real thing.
Got a so-called fake 2GB Memory Stick from China, it can store about 1949MB and plays without any problem and it cost less than half of the original price.
Hi speed or not doesnt matter as long as PSP can read it. For all I know, PSP may not even support hi-speed even if its original.
But for those who got Memory stick storing signnificantly lesser than whats stated on the stick, hard luck, you probably got a "real" fake.
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I'd just like to note that the real cards (pro duo) do not work with alot of card readers. I have a real gig stick, my reader works with the 32meg stick i got with my psp, but doesn't with my real gig stick.
73 - I really really would be suprised if newegg sold fake sticks. And I'm am sure if you recieved a fake stick from them they would fully refund the stick on return. Newegg has a reputation it wants to keep.
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it takes about 17 minutes to load up my psp with 2gb of stuff
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Next you'll be telling me all those ISO's I download off emule aren't legitimate liscenced sony distributions either.
Seriously - sony can blow me, I couldn't care less if the stick was made of cardboard - so long as it works and costs a fraction of their proprietary bullshizen, I'm a happy shopper.
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To tell you the truth though i could care less if it is 'Sony Authentic', because it hasnt failed, and it runs perfectly fine. I feel bad for those of you who had stick fail, but i guess that is the chance you take when you purchase on eBay out of china.
I guess i got lucky with my stick :)!
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Anyway, if i let camera or psp format the card i am only able to use 64megs of it before error messages return with pc , psp and cam. now very strangely if I format with windows the card appearsto work normal, and able to use all the space available with pc cam and psp. Weird or what ..
Still going to try and get money back or a swapout as the card is still faulty in my eyes ;)
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HELP HELP HELP
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HELP HELP HELP
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