Don't think of a electric bulb. Its about a big mokkai i got at Palika Bazaar, Delhi. I bought a 8GB Transcend pen drive in a shop inside Palika bazaar. Initially they told me that price of an 8GB pen drive is 1400 rupees. I vaguely remembered that even 2GB pen drive cost Rs.600 in Bangalore and was wondering how come they are giving 8GB for just Rs.1400. I thought they might be getting in wholesale and since there many such shops they might be selling at competitive prices. I checked in few more shops also and finally got one such for Rs.800 after some bargaining. I even put that pen drive in a laptop in that shop and checked the size also. I was quite happy that I got an 8GB at such a low price and was about to buy one more for my brother. But my intuition told me that let me try this first and if it works good then i can go for one more. I tried it immediately when i returned to room. Then, I came to know that I was cheated. ;-( .. I did google many times and finally found that these are fake drives widely under circulation in these kinda markets. They will show the drive size as 8GB and u will be able to copy data sized that much. But the actual storage is just 128 MB. If you try to read the data u copied just now, u will be able to read only the initial data copied upto 128MB mark in the drive. Rest will show some crap values in the file name. ;-) At the end, I paid Rs.800 for just 128 Mb pen drive.
Please pass this info to your friends and others ppl whom u know. Though it is not possible for us to eradicate these fake products, at least we can alert our friends by passing this piece of info.
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Interesting. if when I think about it I guess that the host computer has no way of knowing what the size of the drive is other than trusting external drive's firmware and asking it about the data and meta data.
All these guys had to do was to alter that software, aint it?
Neat trick, and anyways 800 is not such a big deal for you.. especially when it has helped add you massive GK by a small amount.
ole maari kke oru olu!! wat a pity! :P
naan 800 kudukaamaley itha therinjuktene :)
first time when i read the title, i though u have got a bulb for 800 rs. bulb means electric bulb..
mottai .. matter therinchukittela .. service charge ah oru $400 transfer panni vidu .. ;-) ..
i heard that pen drives more than 2GB capacity might not work well with NTFS file system.. since my laptop is NTFS, i thought that could be a pbm.. later i tried FAT, linux etc .. onnum nadakala .. super ah panni irukanga antha drive a .. intha brain a productive ah use pannina innum India engayo poidum .. ;-)
2 GB flash drives not working well with NTFS?!! dei, that is just not possible..look, size does not matter at all..if 2 Gb works, then any amount of Gb will work..but I still like the bulb!! :)
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