Recently I have bought a brand new Kingston USB drive from an Online Store. The purpose of this new drive was to make it as a bootable USB drive for Ventoy and hence the large capacity of 128GB.
It was a bargain at first...
After several FAILED attempts in making the drive to be bootable, I got curious and starting checking for the genuine of the product.
Here is my findings :-
1. The Packaging was not Kingston's standard packaging but does resembles the original packaging.
(Original Front Packaging)
(FAKE Front Packaging)
(Original Back Packaging)
(FAKE Back Packaging)
2. The original Kingston USB drive have "Laser" engraving on the USB key.
(FAKE USB Drive) (Original USB Drive)
3. Using a third party utility to check the USB drive's VID and PID information reveals more details. The utility was called "CheckUDisk V5.4", you may google this utility and download it, no installation required.
4. Upon having the details, now you can cross-check it on this website (https://the-sz.com/products/usbid/index.php), this website contains many USB manufacturer information and their respective model.
(FAKE VID and PID, returns something else instead of Kingston)
(Original VID and PID, returns the correct Kingston's information)
Conclusions, always buy from reputable seller or Manufacturer's Official Website. This will ensure you get the original product and works as intended.
!!! HAPPY COMPUTING !!!
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