With the growing “fake” or “1^st copy” of the day to day gadgets it’s really hard to understand which one is fake and which is original. This is more commonly found in the case of 16GB or 32GB pen drives.  You can easily find markets flooded with the fake pen drives and by their look and design they resemble so close to the original ones that’s its quite difficult to differentiate between the original ones and the fake ones. Here are some tips to remember so that you don’t fall prey to such elements

• Always make sure that you get a receipt with the guarantee or warrantee card from the seller. Avoid buying pen drives which are being sold on road sides or loosely.
• When you take a 32GB/16GB or pen drive of high volumes make sure that you fill at least 80% of the pen drive with some data.  After copying is done copy it back to the computer. Make sure the writing operation of the pen drive is smooth.
• Often many of us forget to check for the playback of the pen drive, in order to check this simple copy a song or video to the pen drive and play the file directly from the pen drive. If the playback is not working then either the pen drive is fake or if there is some problem with its working.
• Check for the drivers, Suppliers and Manufactures name, often the fake pen drives or defective pen drives have no information available about drivers, Provider and Manufactures.
• Try formatting the pen drive with FAT32 or NTFS and see that the default allocation size option is working.
• Some pen drives carry a Unique identification number on them, check if that product has any number over it or not.

Keep in mind the above tips and save yourself from falling prey to fake pen drives. You can also refer to other articles from net or magazines for detecting the fake pen drives.