How to distinguish USB

Discounting only 25-50% compared to before, USB is a popular computer accessory. However, counterfeit and poor quality goods, but the appearance is exactly the same as the real ones, which appear rampant, making buyers very easily confused.

Rare genuine goods

Since the end of 2006, when manufacturers sharply reduced the price of USB, the market of this mini storage device was much more exciting. Not only that, USB with many styles, colors and types of capacity makes buyers eager to choose.

However, according to Mr. Nguyen Duc Thinh, a salesperson of USB Supermarket, 811 La Thanh, Hanoi, genuine USB products are quite rare even though its market is very rich and colorful. .

USB is a "smoking" computer accessory.

The main reason is the increasingly powerful dominance of poor-quality 'fake' USB but the same design as genuine.

Ms. Thuy, store manager of computer components 97 Ly Nam De, said a few months ago, she imported a USB shipment of Adata Jorg with the price of 200,000 VND for 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB . This number is consumed very quickly, but soon after, the number of buyers comes to a pretty big warranty that makes her 'scared'. Since then, in order to maintain credibility with customers, she only imported Imation's unique USB store that followed her 'least clones'.

According to the computer accessories business, the main USB 'clones' are cheaper than genuine Chinese goods from 3-5 USD, the form of packaging is exactly the same but the quality is much worse. To make a profit, many sellers have imported this kind of goods.

How to distinguish real and fake goods

Along streets specializing in selling computer components and accessories such as Ly Nam De, Thai Ha and Le Thanh Nghi, although the store owners have pledged 'genuine goods to ensure quality', some observations are carefully observed. They still find the fake 'fake' USB on the 'genuine' USB ports, which is difficult to distinguish but the price is equal.

Mr. Pham Quoc Cuong, an experienced salesman of Tran Anh computer company, shared how to distinguish USB black and white: "USB is the best copy of Adata Jorg, Kingston, Transcend because of these types. common and popular among consumers.

Genuine USB has the manufacturer's serial, previously serialized with glossy paper on the product, but now some firms have straightened the code with blurring ink on the product, while 'fake' goods are usually not available. serial, parameters.

For Adata Jorg's USB, the real product has a seamless outer plastic cover while the counterfeit is 2 separate pieces, darker.

For Kingston USB devices, customers need to pay attention to their edges. All are white, no drive support for Win 98. 128 MB red border, 256 MB green border, 512 MB blue purple purple border, 1 GB gray border, 2 G green banana border. Counterfeit goods often have different colors or drive disk support. "

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