Worried You Might Purchased a Fake SD Card? Verify with H2testw!

I recently bought a Sandisk 64GB Ultra from a UK eBay seller and the program H2testw is checking, but side-by-side it looks genuine to my prior Sandisk 64GB Ultra card I bought in 2013.

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H2testw 1.4 has proven itself to be the best of breed for detecting counterfeit Flash drives. It is extremely easy to use and proves detailed information. Created by Harald Bögeholz, the interface is in German but has the option to run in English. It is free and standalone.

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Nothing is installed into the operating system. Designed for Windows it can run under Linux if Wine is installed. It will not run under Macs as it is a Windows Software . If your computer can not run the software – ask a colleague or friend who has a windows based computer to help you test. However if you are a Linux or Mac user we have good news for you, keep reading. A software has been developed based on the idea of H2testw, just for you.

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Sections covered:

• Gold Standard rating for H2testw 1.4 Why do you give this software such a high rating?
• Results for a 64GB USB drive purchased on eBay, using H2testw 1.4
• Results from H2testw have been verified on drives detected as fakes
• Acknowledgements
• Download Links
• Note To Flash Drive Sellers

Gold Standard rating for H2testw 1.4? Why do you give this software such a high rating?

We give H2testw 1.4 the highest rating and recommend it for testing counterfeit USB Flash Drives for the following reasons:

1. Easy to Use
2. While in German an English Execution is possible
3. Stand alone executable file – no installation required to run it
4. You do not need administrator privileges on a computer to run it
5. Tested to work on 1.1 and 2.0 USB drives
6. Tested to work on 1.1 and 2.0 USB Ports
7. Tested to work to analyze drives advertised as 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and yes …64 GB capacity.
8. Reports seen capacity – what the operating system sees size to be.
9. Will write 1 GB files up to the reported size – requiring no work on your part except patience if it is a large drive and a slow computer
10. Will read all the files it wrote and verify them
11. Will produce a report. a) short if all is well b) detailed if there issues found.
12. The program is offered free

The readme.txt file provides:

• Explanation of the program and what it does for general computer users
• Information on how to interpret the results
• Technical information for those who have a deeper understanding of data storage and file writing and for the skeptics out there. Output results can easily be copy pasted into notepad to be saved as a text file.

* Open the link and you will be see the download links at the bottom of the page.