tested european roms with a 16gb other microsd card and it works! oh man I suppose I got two fake 32gb microsd cards. whatever a "fake microsd card" means. pretty lame but they were free so it's okay I guess
how do you guys explain that it only shows american roms though? pretty weird isn't it?
tried to run the test and estimated time left was 8 hours so I'm not feeling much up to it anymore
what exactly does this check verify?
transferring roms is real slow btw since the file system is exFAT. will it recognize an NTFS card?
Well, maybe you don't understand the concept of "fake microSD card" because yours seems to be working, but here goes what it may mean:
1 - If you card is branded as Kingston, Sandisk, Samsung, Adata (any brand) but wasn't made by or to any of these brands. It's not only not genuine/fake, but is also pirating over the recognized brand.
2 - They say that it has a capacity but actually only a small portion of it works properly, if it says that's a 32gb card but you can only write and read 16gb, 8gb or even less. While they will show on a file list all files that you transferred, it'll only be able to read a part of them (that was written in the actual memory chip, things written beyond the actual memory will give you reading errors).
3 - They say that it's a high speed card (class 8, class 10 or any fancy new class system), but it's actually very, very slow to write data.
4 - Cards that were actually made in a recognized brand factory or a factory that outsources to a recognized brand, but were made in unofficial batches (night shifts, irregular shifts, illegal shifts at the fatcory), that lacks quality control and may have been made out of the proper specs.
5 - Cards that were made with refurbished materials and that weren't quality tested.
There's a article that does a deep analysis of this kind of situation:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
Hw2test will try to fill your microSD to the maximum capacity that it's controller says that it has. And then it will try to read these info back, to see if they were actually written at the card and to what point they were written.
If you card is fake and it's informing a wrong capacity, hw2test will fail at the writing or reading process.
But seeing that a 32gb card had a estimated time of 8h, it probably is fake (if it has a brand like Kingston, Sandisk, etc) or a generic microSD card with really poor specifications (and those doesn't work well with any flashcard device), or your card writer have poor specs or is defective. Try another card writer to see if it works better and with less file corruptions.
