I recently read an article of counterfeit items coming through a variety of channels. I have a bunch of Sandisk memory devices and I found three out of the 8 were counterfeit, including one very expensive CF card.
Sandisk might be a fine manufacturer and getting a bad rap because of the counterfeit items.
But as a buyer you've got to ask yourself two questions:
1. If some of these have even come through Amazon, which is a very reputable company in my opinion, what's my risk in buying a Sandisk device? This is particularly true when you can buy an equivalent Kingston device for less.
2. What is Sandisk doing to go after the counterfeit market? When this problem happened to Microsoft they clearly went after the perpetrators, let everyone know what was happening so they could better avoid the problems, and creatively came up with solutions to help fix the problem. I've got the strong feeling that Sandisk would rather hide the problem after talking with their support.
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