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Find out if your USB stick is fake

What you need: ValiDrive; CrystalDiskMark

Time required: 10 minutes

ave you recently bought a large-capacity (1TB or more) USB stick or drive for a price that seemed too good to be true? Sadly, it may well turn out to be. There’s a growing trend in fake sticks being sold on Amazon and eBay. These devices claim to have massive amounts of storage – Windows certainly thinks so should you use it to check – but scratch a little deeper and you may find the actual capacity is significantly smaller. Here, we

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