How Do You Know You Are Getting Quality Memory?

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Quality Matters. Ask anyone who has purchased a USB Flash Drives.

Over 80% of the flash memory manufactured is “downgraded” from its original intended use.These downgraded flash memory chips end up in a variety of consumer electronics including mobile phones, cable boxes, GPS navigation systems, toys – and even many USB Flash Drives.

Downgraded memory modules were manufactured by top tier manufacturers such as Samsung, Hynix, Toshiba, Intel, Micron and others but did not pass their rigorous quality control standards and therefore could not be certified and labeled under their own prestigious brand name.This memory they manufacturer can legally be sold to be placed inside, for example, a children’s toy, Hallmark gift card or mobile phone and work perfectly fine without any problems.

These Downgraded Memory chips find their way into USB Flash Drives more often given the nature and trading of the memory market in the Far East. It is hard to control what happens to the memory after it leaves the manufacturing plant in Asia.

A USB Flash Drive is an electronic device that stores your valuable information. ...
... In Downgraded Memory that does not pass the quality control specifications of the original brand name manufacturer, a 1GB chip might only store 987MB of data instead of the full 1024MB of data. This might be OK in a GPS unit that only needs to store no more than 700-800MB of data, but not in your USB Flash Drive you expect to hold a full gigabyte, or 1024 megabytes of data.

Some companies will even use a much lower capacity drive, such as a 512MB drive and reprogram the controller to display 1GB of data. This is the worst case scenario that causes factories and trading companies to lose trust in the overall market.

On top of all this, when you plug your USB drive into a computer, it will register in the computer as 1GB or 1024MB but in reality it will not be able to store more than the amount that it was “downgraded” to because the memory module was supposed to hold 1024MB when it was manufactured. In the above example, your drive will show a full 1GB but imagine only being able to store 512MB of data!

Many promotional companies do not have the control over where their out-sourced factories procure their memory modules from, therefore causing companies to buy the “cheapest” memory out there on the market instead of quality, brand-name and certified memory modules.

Unfortunately, by looking at the product on the outside you will not be able to tell what is inside. Even the computer will register the full amount of memory it was originally manufactured to hold. The only way to tell if the memory module is original or downgraded is by buying directly from the source – the manufacturer of the memory chips.

Look for a USB company who owns their own factory and that purchases directly from the manufacturer or their authorized component distributor directly. Find one who buys from the same manufacturers major consumer flash-memory based companies purchase their memory from, including Apple, SanDisk, Lexar, Kingston, and many other electronic companies that manufacturer memory cards to such a high quality standard.

By selecting this type of USB company to purchase from, you will get the absolute highest quality USB drives with no downgraded/degraded memory or components. Visit: www.usbpromos.com/

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