That cheap 2TB USB stick is probably fake - here’s how you know


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  • Saturday, 27 Feb 2021

If your USB looks to have too much space to be true, and come at a very low price, it may just be a fake. — dpa

You find a USB stick online - 2 terabytes for the price of a month of Netflix? A total bargain. Or too good to be true? Because once the flash drive arrives, if at all, it soon emerges it’s a cheap, small-capacity USB stick only pretending to be big.

Search online - even on major platforms - and you’ll find countless offers for 1TB and 2TB flash drives costing between US$5-30 (RM20-131).

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