If I formatted it to fat32, error windows came up and the hard disk is formatted successfully but the disk capacity is shown differently. if formatted to ntfs, the hard disk hangs and makes a weird tuk tuk sound every few minutes. I formated the disk from the disk management, same result. The new partition size still shown as 1.81TB. I can delete the partition and make a new partition. So, I dont have the hard disk with me now to rerun the test.Īs for HD Tune : I didnt use it because I totally have forgotten about that tools.Īs for info from from windows disk management, it just a stupid display. I can't tell exactly what the bad attributes/parameters were because I forgot to take note, and by this time, Out of many attributes being tested, two parameters came up as 'error' (causing health status to become yellow). In crystaldiskinfo, the health status is coloured in YELLOW (Green means healthy. I forgot to mention about crystaldiskinfo.
I have returned the items back to lazada for refund.ĢTB Portable External Hard Disk Drive Mobile HDD Canvio Basics USB 3.0 2.5" 2TB Desktop Laptop Computer PC Here is the picture of the fake hard disk that I bought from lazada. When I formatted into fat32, it proceed but with error messages. When I formatted into NTFS, it hang until I have to unplug the hard disk. My hard disk was by default using exfat file system. The fake 2TB hard disk that I purchased probably has only 120GB hard disk inside.īy the way, I also listened to the spinning sound as advised above, and yes, it can hear a spinning drive.Īlso, another method to detect fake hard disk, as I read from internet, is to format it to other type of file system namely FAT32/NTFS/exfat. I formatted the hard disk and tried again and got the same result.Ĭonclusion : H2test2 is the best tool to test for real hard disk/usb drive capacity. During my test, after 1 hour, 114GB of data has been written, the tool stopped writing due to error. While it’s an older tool, it’s still quite effective for quickly testing SD card speeds without any extra features or settings to deal with. It writes temporary files to your SD card to determine the read and write speeds. To write 1.75TB of data, it should take 30hours using usb 2.0 port. All you have to do is download it and run it directly from the folder.
H2testw : This tools will write until the disk is full or you specify how much data you want to write. lol.įakeFlashTest : The tools seems hang and not responding. When I tried it, the tools says it cannot read the ID at all. I read it from here and tested some of it.ĬhipGenius - It is supposed to be able to read the controllers ID and display actual size. There are a few tools that were not mentioned above that can be used to detect fake hard disk.