Sometime back i purchased a sandisk 8gb pen drive. The pen drive in principle is working all right. However there's something unusual about this pen drive.
When i plug it in my windows pc, os detects it as a usb hdd (Local disk) rather than removable disk.
As a result i am unable to use certain apps that work on removal pen drives like flash drive tester. These apps don't detect the pen drive as it's not marked as removable in the firmware.
Internet research showed that this was done by sandisk to pass some windows 8 certification test.
The issue is it's not a true usb removable pendrive and not being detected as removable which is supposed to be expected behavior.
This is to bring it to the notice of all tech savvy buyers to check with sandisk before making their next pen drive purchase. Was this information helpful? | 
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