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Accessories SD card?

Not filled it up yet, still trying to find a decent way of getting music from itunes (on a mac) onto the droid.

When its mounted it shows 31979 mb, i've only got 4.something gb's on it now.

31,979mb is too high for it to be legit (if ever there was any doubt for that price). But if it works fine, bargain :)

If you're in the UK, this 8GB SanDisk one is mega cheap on play.com -
 
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But the quality of the ones bought directly from the Far East can't be guaranteed, unlike Sandisk ones etc.

There is no way the Far East imports will be speedy, use at your peril and make sure you back up anything important on it, the chips used in them are the cheapest of the cheapest available.

There are at least two sandisk factories in the east one in hong kong and one in shanghai

Sorry i am busting chops today
 
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31,979mb is too high for it to be legit (if ever there was any doubt for that price). But if it works fine, bargain :)

Definitely. Its FAKE!!!

hardware manufacturers work on the basis that there are 1000MB in a GB. In actuality here are 1024.

A GB to a hardware manufacturer in decimal is:

1,000,000,000 Bytes but in actual (binary) it is 1,073,741,824 Bytes

So lets do some maths,

Decimal 32,000,000,000 Bytes / 1.073.741.824 = 29.80 (approx)

29.80 (approx) x 1024 = 30,517.

The maximum any 32GB hardware will report in windows is 30,517. More than this is not possible.

Now what is possible, is to hard code a fake value to the flash memory of a card so it will show at whatever someone wants it displayed as in windows - A fake capcity.

Infact, there are warnings all over ebay that there are fakle 32GB cards for sale on there and to be weary.

If you look around, a SanDisk 32GB micro SDHC will cost you at least
 
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Definitely. Its FAKE!!!

hardware manufacturers work on the basis that there are 1000MB in a GB. In actuality here are 1024.

A GB to a hardware manufacturer in decimal is:

1,000,000,000 Bytes but in actual (binary) it is 1,073,741,824 Bytes

So lets do some maths,

Decimal 32,000,000,000 Bytes / 1.073.741.824 = 29.80 (approx)

29.80 (approx) x 1024 = 30,517.

The maximum any 32GB hardware will report in windows is 30,517. More than this is not possible.

Now what is possible, is to hard code a fake value to the flash memory of a card so it will show at whatever someone wants it displayed as in windows - A fake capcity.

Infact, there are warnings all over ebay that there are fakle 32GB cards for sale on there and to be weary.

If you look around, a SanDisk 32GB micro SDHC will cost you at least
 
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