Becareful of fake sandisk cards on ebay

[Valiant]

http://martybugs.net/articles/fakesandisk.cgi

Just found out my card is fake

[Biggsy]

This is why I stick to Toshiba.  A less popular brand, so less likely to be faked.  The white Class 6 2GB ones I got cheaply from Hong Kong work fast with my cameras and PC.

[Woofage]

Thanks for that. I recently bought an 8GB card off eBay (for my silent server project). Luckily it looks like it's real.

[Valiant]

Thanks for that. I recently bought an 8GB card off eBay (for my silent server project). Luckily it looks like it's real.

Silent server? Keep me informed sounds interesting and efficient

[Woofage]

Thanks for that. I recently bought an 8GB card off eBay (for my silent server project). Luckily it looks like it's real.

Silent server? Keep me informed sounds interesting and efficient

Will do. It's for our home office so our storage requirements are low. I have an 8GB CF card and an IDE adapter (well, 2 actually - one for later). I'll use an old mobo I have and a very basic graphics card. I'll use one CF card to set it up and establish that it all works, then add another (one for /, the other for /home) and rebuild. Later I will put in a real HDD (for photos etc) but if I get hdparm right it will sit at idle until it's needed.

Got the idea from Linux Format a couple of months back