Sandisk is famous of its fast and reliable memory cards and that is why many professional photographers prefer Sandisk. There are a lot of fake Sandisk memory card out there especially compact flash card (CF) and secure digital card (SD). If you google search, you will find a lot of write-up about fake Sandisk memory card and guides on how to differentiate the fake and genuine.

I am more concern on CF card because all my Nikon camera uses CF. Here is a site which I found it very helpful on guides to identify fake Sandisk CF card - click here. But the best way to identify counterfeit card is to get a “PCMCIA” CF card reader/writer for computer laptop. I got mine through lelong.com which only cost me RM25 including delivery. Plug-in the PCMCIA card and CF card and it will function like normal USB card reader. When ejecting the card, go to “Safely Remove Device” and you will notice the name “Sandisk ****” which means that is the genuine Sandisk CF card. If is fake, it will show some other brand name.

Sandisk doesn’t come cheap compare with some other brand, if you are planning to get one, make sure you know what to look for.