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    Fake Memory Stick for PSP, Whats the disadvantage?

    As the title says really what is the disadvantage?

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    generally slower, potentially less relaible. If it happens to take out your PSP (technically possible, if unlikely) then you have no come back against sony or whoever make the memory stick.

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    oh ok, it wont be for any important data just for psp, thanks funkstar

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    Really no need for fake sticks mate. I got a sony2gb stick off ebay for £14, cheap as chips!

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    ive been offered 8gb for like 40 quid lol

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    Its not so much it being fake thats the issue, but they are often marked as a higher capacity than what they actually are. This means once you hit the cards 'real' limit, it starts to rewrite over itself, corrupting the data at the beginning of the stick.

    See: http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=70524
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    ooooh. didn't knwo about that Agent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gtech View Post
    Really no need for fake sticks mate. I got a sony2gb stick off ebay for £14, cheap as chips!
    That probably *is* fake, like the so called "Sony" stick I got off eBay Hell it even had a hologram.

    The clue is usually in the packaging, the plastic package for the fake tends to be stuck together in spots (easy to open), whilst the real deal is the more evil "hack it with scissors" type packaging.

    No problem with the fake here so far *touch wood*, it's just a little slow transferring stuff to it from the computer but the PSP doesn't tend to hammer memory sticks speed-wise.

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    2GB duos are going for as little as £10 on eBay right now. I would stay well clear of them.

    7DayShop has them for £18, which is a good bench mark. A few pounds cheaper is possible, but a genuine card won't be 40% cheaper just because it is on eBay.

    It used to be different, retailers used to have huge markups on memory cards, but that had gone now they are so widely available.

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    A few guys I work with have gone and got "fake" MSDPs from various E-Bay sellers, invariably 4gigs, and they are chronically unreliable - hardly ever work. One guy was saying that it'd happily handle video, but wouldn't load games off the memory stick.

    Steer well clear of them.

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    i think theres even a guide on ebay somewhere about how to spot fakes, like has been said, for example a fake 2gb card is most likey a 256mb or something like that, it'll come up even in the psp as 2gb but it wont obviously be able to hold that much data and will currupt

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