It was during the last week that I bought a 16GB USB 2.0 Data traveler for a supposedly good deal. The USB drive is a Kingston make and the deal I struck was 450 Rupees (a little less than $9) for, it though came after some bargain. I was almost feeling that the deal for Kingston 16GB USB data traveler made my day.
It was in a gray market shop that I bought the USB. However, the misery struck soon after coming home when I realized that it is a fake Kingston USB pendrive and not original. When I transferred files, it showed no problems up to 5GB and when I tried to transfer further it started showing its true colors (err...... I mean fake colors). The USB hangs beyond 5GB push. And, in fact, to retrieve the data too it gave me hell of a problem.
Even after I stopped transferring data the files and folders that were existing got corrupt and they don’t seem to be stored in the same name I’ve wanted. The file names changed, and I was surprised to see some odd symbols as names.
Me, along with few other friends who purchased one each are trying to work out on the ways to resolve the issue. But more than that now I know that I cannot buy these knock offs no matter how cheap they come. After all you don’t want to land in a problem within the next hour you buy an electronic.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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