1. Because the advertised capacity was 8GB but the real capacity was <1GB. There was a lot of coverage about this a few years ago. Including Bunnie Huang who ha

1. Because the advertised capacity was 8GB but the real capacity was <1GB. There was a lot of coverage about this a few years ago. Including Bunnie Huang who had a problem with bad, fake SD cards being in his Chumbys'. The controller reported 8GB to the OS and so as it reached real capacity the controller would overwrite the first blocks. 2. If the code works on your computer yet doesn't work on the clients computer you would be lead to believe the problem is on the client's side. Honestly, how many people actually check their storage media? I didn't debug the USB drive I ran the code from the USB drive after recompiling 50 million times. I don't see a lot of programmers trying to run diskcheck or memcheck every time they have an unexplainable crash.