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Somebody should make this up as a handheld device. Something that you can use to inspect new items, and retailers can use to inspect what their suppliers are se
by Animats 2y ago
Somebody should make this up as a handheld device. Something that you can use to inspect new items, and retailers can use to inspect what their suppliers are sending them.
Can a Flipper Zero be programmed for this? It connects to Micro SD cards and USB ports.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoA retailer wouldn't want to deal with this. They would expect their distributor to weed out the fakes for them. If enough people complain about poor quality drives, you fire them. In my opinion, anyone selling these must be doing it knowingly at this point. Distributors that care probably use something like this: https://www.ureach-inc.com/ https://www.ureach-inc.com/
- denkmoon 2y agoAh, but we live in the glorious future, where retailers are just fronts for flea-markets filled with third party crap, and claim zero responsibility. You thought you were buying a flash drive from Best Buy? HA, you actually bought it from AHJKHJ Pty Ltd! And no we won't help you!
- monksy 2y agoAll while pocketing the listing fee.
- Wistar 2y agoToo bad the ureach fails to provide some means to price or even buy one of their products. At least it doesn’t on iOS Safari.
- cyanydeez 2y agoSomeone unrmployed should offer to MITM amazon purchases and ensure low priced cards get tested and reshipped or files fraud reports.
- wakawaka28 2y agoThis won't work because there are multiple sellers on Amazon. I'd trust the original packaging of the device more than anyone supposedly running these tests for me, especially since they can take hours to complete.
- bayindirh 2y agoOriginal packaging won't save you. Moreover, dealing with the manufacturer directly won't save you either in some cases[0]. [0]: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/
- wakawaka28 2y agoPut it this way. I would trust the packaging over someone's word that they opened the packaging and tested it. I would trust it 10x more if I bought from the manufacturer's site.
- bayindirh 2y agoBunnie bought the cards from Kingston directly, in its original packaging (trays). Cards were subpar at best, counterfeit at worst. Kingston exchanged them no questions asked after some pressing. Delidding the cards revealed different components and construction. So no, buying directly from the manufacturer brought no advantages or guarantees. Regardless of the packaging and purchasing channel, I’ll only trust my own test. Nothing else.
- Dalewyn 2y agoDespite their good reputation (mostly associated with their RAM), Kingston is just a repackager of third-party parts. They don't actually make any of their products themselves. Therefore, you indeed can't trust their original packaging if they themselves don't vet their supply chain properly. This is in stark contrast to manufacturer-vendors like Samsung, Micron (Crucial), and SanDisk (Western Digital) who manufacture either all or at least the core components of their products and have their own manufacturing reputation on the line.
- pronoiac 2y ago> Can a Flipper Zero be programmed for this? It connects to Micro SD cards and USB ports. I wrote something barebones for this on my Synology, using just a shell script and (hardware accelerated) openssl, if memory serves; that acceleration was crucial for handling, say, an 8TB hard drive.