Case 1 Someone bought a WD20EURS (AV-GP) on newegg (China) and found some suspicious points. [image] Pay special attention to the typos: Formart, Addlitional, avaliable. If you enlarge the image, you’ll find most ｉ’s look like ｌ’s, and the printing is blurred. Additionally, according to the a…

The first drive, with the spelling errors, is obviously a fake, and a very bad one at that. AFAICT, even the DCX number is wrong. AIUI, the DCX should be related to the middle three characters in the model number suffix (63S48Y0), eg … DCX = nSxx4yy8z One other way to check for fakes is to compar…

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lImIlAo July 23, 2011, 11:56am 2

All right, I’ve erased all S/N so that they will comply with privacy requirement.