How to Identify a Fake Samsung Micro SD Memory Card
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- Getting a fake memory card can be a real downer. Not realising it's a fake until it's too late is even worse. Follow this videos tips for determining if you have bought a fake memory card or not. Here's some genuine Samsung SD Cards from Amazon ► geni.us/hTOi
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When comparing print quality do a close-up of the authentic one.
Look at the Samsung logo the real one is up-to-date and the fake one is from a older version
That's another great indicator. Packaging Graphics :) Thanks for info!
You can tell straight away that it's the old logo that I haven't seen in years! dead giveaway!
Good vid tho
That card was born a fake but now identifies as a real Samsung card now , respect it's decision please.
LMAO
I mean it's the same as real life, someone identifies as something else but are still actually what they used to be
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As a real man with XY chromosomes, I approve your message.
Are you saying that SD cards can be LGBT (Lasanga & Garlic Bread Time) ?
Wow those speeds are even bad for a fake card.. Good video.
Quite obviously not a real Samsung Micro SD Card :) I knew it was a fake before I even opened the package but some people won't know until they have issues. Hence why I made this video so people can identify a fake Samsung Micro SD Card before they open it.
What puzzles me is, why do they even try to sell fake crap like this? Eventually people will find out, sooner or later.. and unfortunately will even loose precious picture and video when using it in a mobile phone. This just shows utter dumbness on the part of the wanna scammers... SMH!
Guess the best thing to do is be proactive, and run the H2Test on every single card regardless where it was bought at.
Dear TechWizTime, I was having trouble with an EVO sd card I bought, and low and behold after watching your video I now know it was a fake. Now it won't even mount on my computer or phone. Thanks! I've reported the seller already. I look forward to seeing more vids from you.
Glad my video helped. Not glad you got a fake. Thanks for your comment too :)
Samsung micros are made in Korea or the Philippines and are packaged in China or sourced to consumer countries. There are fakes out there but don't get everyone all frenzied up about it. Just buy from a reputable dealer and you will be guaranteed the quality product you ordered.
I bought a FAKE just recenlty from Ebay (in fact I've had two in as many weeks off Ebay) a 128gb Samsung Evo Plus and a SanDisc Extreme Pro 128gb The Samsung you mention here ticks every single fake box on your video. Something else I noticed too, ulike my other Genuine Samsung SD Card that I have had for years, is that on my phone it only shows up as 'SD card' where as my genuine one shows up as 'SanDisc Card', I also notice that on the back of the Samsung SD Card itself (in tiny writing) so you need a magnifier to see it, it says Made in Taiwan (and Made in Korea on the packaging) Also both fakes say 'your card is too slow. consider buying a faster card' in the Moto G4 phone. Thank you so much for this video, you have no doubt saved me from yet another fake. Incidentally the Samsung was only £9.99, fortunately I got the money back on this one, but still waiting to hear back from the seller that I bought the SanDisc from: that one was £29.99, so thought it would be OK, but it behaved in exactly the same way as the Samsung Evo in my phone - couldn't save anything to either - they just kept showing up as 'corrupted'.
I think I got jumped because the sd card came in a ziplock inside an envelope
Darphir I’m cracking lmao!
This is from a message from Samsung "Our SD Cards used to be only made in Korea, but about a year or 2 ago, we opened a factory in the Philippines for SD Cards as well. So modern Samsung SD Cards will either say Made in Korea or Made in the Philippines."
Thanks for sharing. I recently received 4 -32 GB MicroSD Cards that literally had gold foil for the contacts. The truly sad thing is that they were sent here from the US and not shipped from abroad. The low life scum that did this should rot in data hell for the rest of their existence. I am not blaming all transactions that come from abroad, however, some jerk hole got burned and decided to create a flaming crap sandwich for others. Now I have to fight EBAY, Paypal and this bottom feeder for my money back. It takes time and that is time I lost. Of course they did not work, however, it made me test a few other cards I was suspect on for crashing in my devices or corrupting data. I used RMPrepUSB to test them and they were 8GB cards not the 64GB cards I paid for. For everyone else, spend the money through reputable places and not EBAY and get what you pay for. I have never got a bum card from Samsung direct, Dell, B&H, or Newegg. All buyers beware when you make purchases from suspect places. Sorry to rant on your post. Keeping making video's!
You got a South African or an Australian accent there? Good review. I like fake to be exposed so that we customers do not get duped. It's a pain in the heart that hits you when after you purchased a product and then you learnt it's a fake.
Good video (I'm a bit late to watch!) What is annoying is I watched a video of some dude supposedly reviewing a Samsung 256GB EVO card, and saying how its no good etc... then we find out he got it on Amazon from some seller. That actually infuriates me just as much as the sellers of fakes!
Samsung have exceptional standards for their products, so people whining on TH-cam should check they have the real deal before they try to soil the reputation of what are essentially the best SD cards money can buy! Cheers
Another thing with the fake is the the + sign. The GENUINE displays the word PLUS but the FAKE displays the sign +
Watch out for eBay it may say 64gb but you get 8gb after the 8 everything is corrupt
NEVER buy these off eBay, regardless of the seller. Returns aren't worth the hassle even if they honor them.
If it has a explanation mark on most of the videos is it corrupted?
Don't listen to them, eBay has a universal SD card and it is unbranded, does not mean anything.
I got a SanDisk 32GB micro SD card on my phone. I'm using 19GB and my phone tells me it's full when I try taking pictures, as well as move apps into it. Could it be fake or is my phone glitching out?
I bought a Samsung EVO 32GB microSD card in a red packet. Had a lot of problems formatting it. Sometimes it formats, but at many other times is says "Unable to Format". I have discarded it. Having seen you video I now realise that it is a fake.The blue packaging version is not sold at most retail stores in my country. Tks for the video.
Crazy thing is, if you buy Samsung cards in the Philippines, it's made in Korea. 😂
There's Korean made SD card as well.
Definitely - the best Samsung cards are made in Korea. Their main advantage is that you can change their CID. Cards from Philippines have CID change locked.
@@adrian_4417 China and Korea aren't "Very Similar".
Samsung came from South Korea btw.
Samsung is Korean right?
Thank you! You just solved my Nintendo Switch problem. Fake Korean-black edged card from ebay.
Glad to have helped :)
What kind of problems were you having with your Switch?
korea or philippines is an indicator of it being genuine if it is china or taiwan big indicator of fake samsung card. as samsung only has plants in south korea and philippines you will only ever get genuine cards from those 2 locations. also samsung has a patent on the white edge design for exactly this reason. further bad news you are not safe from sellers of repute amazon had a supply contamination in their own stock so it is literally gambling if you get a real card or fake... best advice is to test your card if it doesn't pass scratch and sniff test and a write + verify then return it.
Think im about to find the same thing - test pending. Switch also
The old adage "You get what you pay for!" certainly hold true with SDCards... Best advice is to buy it from a local big box store (forget online!), which will reduce the chances of ending up with fake cards significantly. As a tip, regardless of where it was brought from, simply run the H2Test on every single card to avoid being scammed. ;)
This video helped confirm my suspicions that the Samsung MicroSD card that I bought from an online retailer was a fake. This was really helpful! Thanks for uploading this :-)
Same here. just got mine today from ebay, tested it and confirmed it was fake
I bought Samsung 32gb (class10) MicroSD memory card similar colour packaging (the fake one you showed) from ebay for £6. Nothing triggerd me to think that it was a fake card apart from your video. The print on the card and packaging looks very clear and accurate to me. Though on the back of the card said Made in Korea and model number ended up with CN as well. When I inserted my card in the slot, it showed 29.4gb available space and I ran the H2testw. Test went very well without any error. Writing speed was 18.1MByet/s and Reading speed 30.0MByet.
I took the screenshot of the test result but there is no option to upload it here with the comment.
Do you think its fake?
N.B: forgot to mention that side of the memory card is also black. NOT WHITE.
I havent seen the original, only the "fake". You should compare them side by side.
Thanks very much for the info you saved me even opening the packets on two 32gb cards I had delivered yesterday. E-mailed the e-bay 100% positive seller he did not argue just said send them back for a full refund. Thanks again. Mike.
Ooh that sassy jazz intro is 😙👌 love the silhouettes haha, you should do them like the models in bond movies 😂😂😂
yep I got ripped off on ebay with a fake 256gb sd card I paid 50.00 for it the seller disappeared shortly after the sale
I know that feel, I got fooled for 3 times buying fake cards and got even no refund. A few week ago for the third time, I bought a 32Gb Card and it turned out to be fake as well after my files suddenly dissapear & mysteriously moved themselves to Lost.Dir folder and they all became 32.0Kb in size.
price too good to be true likely is
White edges, made in the Philippines, good read and write speed and not quite full 50 something out of 64GB. think im safe.
There's a Samsung memory card authentication utility off of the Samsung website that verifies it. Use that. Upvote this so others see. Your package should tell you by saying "authentication available" with a check mark on back, which means you can check with this software when SD card inserted.
Here comes a very simple test to identify without any philosophy: DO NOT BUY CHEAP SHIT!
Loved the Fybeca advert {wheelchair} and the Explaining.on fake cards. Thanks for both!
You are an expert at this... Thanks for the video, I purchase a samsung card and as soon as it gets here, I will be inspecting it closely!!!
You can see the samsung LOGO... they are both diffrent... in fake one they used old samsung logo...
I almost got a Samsung memory card a couple of days ago. I think the only way to get a real one is to order from the Samsung company it's self and just pay a little more. Thanks for the information.
He must be really comfortable, his V neck has turned into a U neck.
My mother in law bought me a 128gb Samsung card from a flea market and it turned out to be 32gb. black boarder and all. It works fine, she paid about what a 32 cost anyway so I'm not worried about it.
Scammers will now fix their products and become indistinguishable.
Thanks bro, just today I went out looking for Samsung sd card 64gb but unfortunately I saw that the orange colour one which is made in Korea and I remember watching your video on which you give a clear information about the fake and the real one.
Thanks anyway ..
A few months ago I bought a 128GB samsung microSD card for less than a quarter of its original price (what a steal, right). when i used it, it could only read and write up to 10GB and whatever it stored in the available storage, it became corrupted. fortunately the seller (lazada) refunded me. and as per your advice, i checked the packaging and saw that it says "made in korea"instead of "made in the philippines" (i'm from the philippines, so, yey!). thanks for this video, it will help me a lot in the future when i buy new memory cards (i only use samsung memory cards).
The fake you got has the correct number font, most fakes I've seen have a different number font which makes these fakes easier to weed out.
Never purchase Micro SD cards online without being able to see pics unless you are buying directly from Samsung or Sandisk, way too many fakes in the wild.
Ebay has a load of fakes right now, if seller uploaded non stock pics, you can kind of tell if the SD card is fake by looking at the card and packaging.
If you get a fake cards you may directly contact Samsung for instance or even the police as iris considered as fraud and is usually taken seriously
Good or bad what is the difference betweem 2 of them same brand
I bought a fake one on ebay. the seller sent me a return label I put it in my mail box to be returned and it shows no scans that I returned it. I just got screwed over. I called the post office to find out what is going on and they are to be talking to my mail person to see what happen. I live in the country and it's an easy to explain package as my return label came out the size of a sheet of paper. it's huge so i put it in a big padded envelope. so they should remember it.
I got a card off ebay (a 64gb Evo with a 60MB/s write speed and a 100MB/s read speed) - was a bit sceptical at first as it was about half the price of the ones sold in store but I guess curiosity got the better of me and I bought it.... I've done the tests you mentioned and the speed seems to be fine when writing/reading on the computer, however when I use the card in my drone to shoot in 4K in 100mbps (approximately 12-13MB/s), I keep getting errors and the drone will stop recording saying the SD card is too slow.
Out of all the other things you mentioned, the only thing different from my packaging to what you mentioned is the "Model Code" next to the barcode. Mine has /APC - different from the "official" ones and also different from your fake one being /CN.
Seeing as this video was made about 2 years ago, no doubt counterfeiters watch videos like this and improve their fakes........ what do you think the chances are that mine is a fake?
This explains why my Samsung card keeps failing. It has black edges. It's a fake.
I wish you would zoom in on the upper right window where you are checking the card as I am having trouble finding where to click as I can not read as too small and not exactly sure what you are clicking on to check hardware write speed, etc.
Thanks for your time to post this information. It will help all who take the time to read seller's reviews & to deal with quality companies.
I bought a fake 512Gb sd card months ago from ebay. It did not function correctly, and only less than 10gB can be used. After several attempts to fix it, I feel something is not right with my sd card I saw this channel that tells it is a fake one. I tried to contact the seller on ebay, but the guy is not registered on ebay anymore.
The only tip here that will help you identify them as fake before paying for and receiving it is the suspiciously low price. Everything else he said is stuff you'll find out when it's too late
well, problem is... there are scamming ebay/amazon sellers who use a fake photo of the card and ship out the fakes so you have no idea until you receive it. The other sign of possible fakeness is price as in.. if its ridiculously low priced.
It is helpful. I bought 128 GB SanDisk from the eBay. when I checked, it was Fake and I returned it. many thanks
Would have been nice to see the print on the real one so we can compare..
Thank you! I noticed the Unpunched “peg hole” immediately when you held both up! Just one example- fantastic video, Sir!
Why did you not report the seller? You're complicit in them selling further fake cards. Even more so if you don't get a refund.
I have also had similar problems with pen drives sold at very low prices. Having much less capacity, and failing to write files even though the software reported successful write.
I am also suspicious about items at very low price with very far shipping dates and wide range of arrival dates. They never arrive. If you contact the seller they react very apologetic asking to wait a little longer please. I have agreed and it doesn't arrive. Contact again and they said they will ship another item. Finally, at the end they issue a refund. This happened enough times to be a noticeable pattern. To me is a tactic because some buyers at developed countries don't care to track items of very low value. But the currency exchange rate makes it significant for the seller at one of these third world countries. They are betting on the chance that buyer will not remember the purchase or won't take the time to reclaim or even won't know how to use eBay features to follow up. They keep the money and don't deliver. I contacted eBay to inform this tactic, but I believe there is nothing in the eBay system to detect the scam. What I do is not to buy memory devices at ridiculous low prices.
I am sure you talk about made in Philippines vs made in Korean. I bought 128gb microsdxc from bhphotovideo and many other stores well known online and it made in Korea not made in Philippines.
The 128GB cards are made in Korea. The rest are made in the Phillipines
what about 256GB?... mine passed all tests but the Made in Korea part
its still happening now ,i got one labeled as "genuine" but the word "trademark" is spelt wrong on the back it says "trademakrs"
A simple test to make, say you have a 32GB card you suspect is fake. Copy 20 - 29GB of files from your hard drive to the card. If you get a error message that says there is insufficient space, then your card is definitely fake.
Hey techwiz , it will be very helpful if you can make a performance comparison of micro sd card and HDD
Thanks mate! This really helps. Was planning to buy one and wus considering buying one on OLX Whichs way cheaper than Amazon. But I guess when it comes to these memory cards it's wiser to spend a little extra and be safe than sorry.
Bought a 128Gb Samsung. Can't even run a test, laptop, desktop, phone and tablet wont even recognize it. Mine was exactly like yours, Korea, CN, Black edges, etc.
And the sd adapter fell apart in my hand!
You will get occasional fakes even from Prime sellers. However, getting a free and fast refund with Prime makes the risk worthwhile because you save so much.
Ebay, OTOH, stay far away from ANY SD card on there.
Thank you for the video! Nice that you did the test as well. Keep up the good job!
Hey dude. I know this is an old video but I really appreciate the info. I got a 64 gb samsung evo class 10 U3 card for my 4k video drone. Worked for a few days then just stopped. Error message from the drone. I thought there was something wrong with the bloody drone! Guess what colour the edge of the card is.... Black! Checked the write speed. Supposed to be 60mbs. its actually 11mbs. write speed supposed to be 100 - actually 19. Jammy bastards selling this shit. Keep up the great work and great video.
Why was, "Made in Korea," a tip-off to being counterfeit, when Samsung is a Korean tech company? That's like saying that a Nikon or Canon is fake because it said, "Made in Japan."
OMG, i just bought a samsung 64gb 256gb and a 512bg all fake still in package sending them back, Thank You. this really help.
I'd rather buy from and fulfilled by Amazon because you're pretty much guaranteed its real.
Can you do a video on fake Kingston Sd cards... its so hard to tell. I even bought one from a retail seller and still ended with something that was fake. I ended exchanging it back for cash. 99% of all Kingston Sd cards on ebay are all fake as well.
Would have nice to see the fake results compared to a genuine card.
What is the different between the fake and the real micro sd card...what is the fake logo and how does it looks like?...please describes with more further details so that it gets understand fully and satisfied...and no cheating whenever dealing with buying...😎👏👏👏❤
I bought my 256g Evo from BestBuy. The back cover lower left corner says "Made in Korea Adapter made in China and guaranteed for one year". You mean to tell me BB sells fake cards?
I was beginning to believe the 100mb reading and 80mb writing on the packages for the different cards, Was just was just false advertising. All of mine(most from e-bay) reads and writes at a steady almost 30 and 27mb respectively, so I was under the impression that that was the standard. But watching this I`m beginning to suspect all my cards are questionable at best.
Re: eBay Feedback. I had a seller outright lie to me and eBay knew it. eBay removed my negative feedback after I entered it. It seems that eBay will remove negative feedback at the request of a seller. So eBay feedback is not always reliable.
Well I just bought one made in Philippines and one made in korea xD, the last one has been working great for over 1 year, I think it's good too, I hope the first one last the same or more!.
No. screw that. NAME THEM AND SHAME THEM! You always tell who you bought from so they can't rip anyone else off! Shame on you!
True
There are actual Samsung micro sd cards made in Korea as I bought one from a higher street dealer and they were labeles made in Korea.
Almost all Korean factories are based in the Philippines, that's why some of Koreans are living in the Philippines.
I'm confused. My mem is made in 'Korea', the adapter is made in China (1 year guarantee for adapter mentioned), punch hole through the card, white edges on the memory card and the bar code says EU (im from the UK). So apparently a lot of the signs indicating authenticity are there but it's made in Korea. Can anyone assure me I don't need to worry about it being unauthentic/original? Would appreciate an opinion..
i bought the genuine card from a reputed seller and now I'm enjoying it
I bought several sdcard and everytime they turned out fake ,I found on the 64gb if I put more than 7gb on card it corrupts the files .I bought another one from a new seller and exactly the same if fact everytime I would buy a new one from different people not all from ebay but they turned out corrupt, I can only assume the whole of Europe and Asia is infected with thousands of them in the end I spent over two hundred GBP on cards only to trash them .Its not one make I tried all the top and some cheap and no where was spared .in the end I bought from a over priced shop but it was alot cheaper than buying a card 5 or 6 times
Don't you think that a resolution on your streamed screen is a little too big for a movie? We can not read s**t on it
Thank you, you're life saver. I've just gotten myself a new S9+ and was thinking of upgrading my sd card memory to 128G but was wondering how to differentiate between real or fake. Wouldn't wanna be conned by those bogus seller bcos in my country these little guys doesn't come cheap
This just pissed me off, why would someone use a 16 gb card as a fake 32 gb card ? I would've use a 2 gb card and increased my profits 1000 fold.
I have a card which looks legitimate but my read/write speeds are way slower than they "should" be.
.. Then again. The manufacturer isn't specifying whether the speeds they're listing are Sequential or Random.
Kind of a huge deal...
My card is fake but came in real packaging what
thanks. I sure got 2 of the fakes :( it so obviously pathetic. the print says U1 while on the card it says U3 and all of the things you mentioned
Yo I have a question! The card I want to buy says "32 Evo PLUS", with the plus under the Evo, instead of "Evo+"... Is that Normal for a real one?
Got mine from Aliexpress and it seems it's genuine (white, made in philippines and fast), but the price wasn't much better than it costs in Europe.
Wow! I almost made a huge mistake of trying to transfer my file to a fake sd card. I'm so glad I watched this. My boyfriend may have one also and has lots of corrupted files now. Is there anyway to get the files or were they just never written to it? There's one short video I had wanted from it but I'm guessing it's impossible to recover it
I have a fake 32gb, works pretty good. They have the speed to match too
Dude.. If your using speed stats as proof, in future, please also do the same test with "real" card for proof of comparison..
I have a Samsung sd card. Made in Taiwan. But in this data is not running. Give Any solution.
Hi, I have a question. I got this sd card from a seller and the package says Made in Korea and the code behind is also CN and not EU. The Micro SD has passed the test with this software h2testw_1.4 without any errors. Is this a good fake or the real one?
Is the memory cards of Samsung made in chaina are fake and worst. ???
Yup...A real downer. Lol. Good informative review. These counterfeit goods are looking too real these days.
What should I do because every point you tell is good for my card as well but except at the bottom it says made in korea Adapter made in china and guaranteed for 1 years.
First thank you for your post and I have learned a lot, I'm here in the US.
I gave you a 👍! 😀
However, the bad part.
Why didn't you simply show the real and the fake naked sd cards, side by side, so your viewers could clearly see the *real* from the fake?
Thank you.
I have purchased Samsung memory of 128gb , there it has written 100 MB/s read speed and 60 MB/ s write speed is it fake and it says manufactured in Korea and adapter in China guaranteed for one year warrenty for adapter is if fake please reply
Buy from Amazon. Make sure it is SOLD AND FULFILLED BY AMAZON. And not from a 3rd party seller..
philipines makes fakes korea is samsung.. samsung phones etc come from south korea....
heres what you want korean products japan products .... and german products these 3 are the best
I have evo plus memory card, maximum write speed is 20MB/s
But it performs up to 25MB/s
Wish i watched your video before buying 128 gb card from ebay for £24 .It turned out to be fake and i realised it when it got currupted.
i have a 128 mirco sd card, every thing passed but it said made in Korea I put it on my switch and it has 119 gb of free space
I have a 256GB one that passed but says its made in Korea, I think we are good bro! ...i think!
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