Hi Paalika bazar is full of fraudters, one should not buy such devices from a reputed shop. I generally shop with Cost2Cost and Computer Empire in Nehru place.
Similar issue arises when one of my friend bought a 30GB pendrive 2 years ago. A Senior who was writing file system for an embedded device, suggested me to copy few different small files and search for any file. If you get multiple result then the product is fake, otherwise its genuine, the reason may be fake firmware, having some loops, which again and again read/writes the same portion. Although I never tried this, You can try and share the experience. Even I am planning to buy a Panasonic Lumix Camera (ebay.in) but when I heard the seller is of paalika bazaar, I am rethinking now. Shrikant On 13 April 2010 00:28, Mehul Ved <mehul.n....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > Recently a friend of mine brought a USB pen Drive (Flash Disk) of 500 > > GB for Rs 1500-/ from Palika Bazaar. > > > > First I don't believe it. However i tried it on my system and checked > > using df -h and it showed 500 GB (free space 498 GB) > > Sounds like fake from the price. > > Couple of discussions on the topic > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/fake-usb-stick-testing-tool-786415/ > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1415764.html > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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