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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / Digital Photo / August 2005Fake memory sticks?
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 "Siddhartha Jain" <reach.siddhartha@gmail.com> wrote in rec.photo.digital: > 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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > could be wrong. But just in case its a fake, is there anyway to tell a > fake memory stick pro from a genuine one? If a fake memory stick does the same as a genuine one, what's the problem?  SignatureCeeBee ***The cookie has spoken*** > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > could be wrong. But just in case its a fake, is there anyway to tell a > fake memory stick pro from a genuine one? Fake or mislabeled? At least as far back as 15 years ago there has been fakery in the industry. One common one was to mislabel CPUs as being rated at a higher clock speed than they actually were. Similarly, non-parity memory was sold as having parity, etc. Do the "fake" Memory Sticks (whether yours or others) have reliability problems or operate at lower speeds? You could always cut away the case to expose the semiconductor within. That's a sure way to identify more than who really made the chips. I'm not suggesting you do that though, unless the memory is completely dead. :) > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > - 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. BJ >> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >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 > >> Hi, > >> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > 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 All this reminds me of my computer vendor who adviced me *not* to buy bulk ink to refill my printer cartridges (15 euros for 100 ml) but to buy his (refill) kits that contain among (reusable) instruments just 40 ml of ink for 19 euros.Of course, every merchant wants to sell his own products and claims that everything else but his' is fake. -- Tzortzakakis Dimitrios major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr > > >> Hi, > > >> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > - Siddhartha || imbsysop wrote: ||| On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:27:26 GMT, "BJ" <bjtexas@swbell.net> ||| wrote: ||| |||| "Siddhartha Jain" <reach.siddhartha@gmail.com> wrote in |||| message news:1125435840.780423.290990@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... ||||| Hi, ||||| [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] ||| expensive ||| memory sticks ... as said it happened before in "electronics" ||| industry, a lot of customers are very easy to fool .. ||| FWIW [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] || || - 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. Signature-- "Every compromise was surrender and invited new demands." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson > || imbsysop wrote: > ||| On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:27:26 GMT, "BJ" <bjtexas@swbell.net> [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > 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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