{"id":961,"date":"2010-02-17T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=961"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:13:38","slug":"microsd-card-sleuthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2010\/02\/microsd-card-sleuthing\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroSD Card Sleuthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunniestudios.com\/blog\/?p=918\">fascinating story about investigating a bad batch of Kingston MicroSD cards<\/a>.  Some of the things I learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li \/>Toshiba and Sandisk co-own the same fabrication facility.\n<li \/>Samsung does not sell their own cards retail, only through resellers who re-brand them.\n<li \/>Kingston does not appear to manufacture their own memory chips, but repackage Sandisk\/Toshiba chips.\n<li \/>A complete SD card&#8217;s cost is nearly identical to the raw Flash chip itself, meaning that the controller and package is provided essentially for free.  This is presumably because the cost of testing a free-standing Flash chip is dramatically higher than testing a complete SD card.\n<li \/>Chinese fake SD cards are impressively made and packaged.\n<li \/>How to spot a knock-off SD card (appearance irregularities and card ID data).\n<li \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.z-a-recovery.com\/\">Z-A-Recovery<\/a> is useful for recovering strange data from that re-sold, fake SD card you bought at a Chinese market stall.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly wouldn&#8217;t say that Kingston SD cards are <i>bad<\/i>, but I will point out that I don&#8217;t see any reason to move away from my quite affordable Sandisk, Lexar, and A-DATA cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a fascinating story about investigating a bad batch of Kingston MicroSD cards. Some of the things I learned: Toshiba and Sandisk co-own the same fabrication facility. Samsung does not sell their own cards retail, only through resellers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2010\/02\/microsd-card-sleuthing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}