Real V.S. Fake - Inside The Memory Sticks

PCPOP has run a detailed comparison on genuine memory sticks and fake ones. Here is a summary of the article:


  • 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...

Source: PSPUpdates
posted on Monday, April 10, 2006 10:38 PM by Auri

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