512GB Sony Vaio USB flash drive listed on ebay USA
There is no such thing as a Sony Vaio USB flash drive of any capacity. Sony only use the Vaio name for laptops/notebooks, not for flash drives. Sony do not sell ANY flash drives of capacities higher than 32GB.
There are no USB flash drives made by ANYONE in 512GB capacity (yet, anyway!) – the highest capacity currently available is 265GB and at present there is only one flash drive of that capacity on the market.
The USB flash drive on the left is a fake that corrupts files. Seller kashifmuhammad obviously got these from a fraudulent supplier.
This seller shows a screenshot – perhaps this seller is foolish enough to think that what the operating system shows as the capacity is the truth. It is not necessarily the truth – the operating system only shows you what someone programmed the device to show the operating system.
The 500GB Sony drive listed by kashifmuhammad is also fake – 500GB is not a size USB flash drives will ever be offered in, this size is only used for hard drives. If you see pictures of a flash drive like the one above or the one on the right – steer welll clear – you are looking at a fake USB flash drive that corrupts files.
We advise everyone who buys flash memory items to test them with the free program h2testw irrespective of where they were purchased – otherwise you run the risk of data loss and corruption.
Report your fake if testing confirms you have purchased fake capacity flash memory on ebay.
@ Sam its a fake there are no 512GB pen drives out on the market yet the highest i’ve seen is 256GB and are expensive right now
Robert Pugliese Jr
October 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Fake.
fightflashfraud
October 1, 2011 at 6:55 AM
Hey i was looking at one which looks a little different than this one on the top left, it’s on ebay and says *NEW TECHNOLOGY* 512gb sony vaio flash memory usb drive. for 90$ is it real or fake?
Sam
September 26, 2011 at 1:59 PM