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Picked up 128gb flash drive: $39 USD
Managed to get one of those new Samsung 128gb flash USB drives. It had a
Sony VAIO label. Opened it up and there was a single large Samsung chip on one side and a small circuit and a few other components on the other. 320gb was also available supposedly. I formatted it for FAT32 (per request of owner) at full 128gb using Acronis tool and verified that both a MAC and XP could read and write it. It was bought in Beijing two days ago. -- ================================================== ==================== Joseph "Beemer Biker" Stateson http://TipsForTheComputingImpaired.com http://ResearchRiders.org Ask about my 99'R1100RT ================================================== ==================== |
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Picked up 128gb flash drive: $39 USD
Considering 1GB chips are still over a buck, it must be counterfeit.
You have to fill it with data and verify the contents. The chinese have also created the 4GB iPod MP4 clone, which is actually 1GB and has no mpeg-4 support at all. "Joe Stateson" wrote in message ... Managed to get one of those new Samsung 128gb flash USB drives. It had a Sony VAIO label. Opened it up and there was a single large Samsung chip on one side and a small circuit and a few other components on the other. 320gb was also available supposedly. I formatted it for FAT32 (per request of owner) at full 128gb using Acronis tool and verified that both a MAC and XP could read and write it. It was bought in Beijing two days ago. |
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Picked up 128gb flash drive: $39 USD
Previously Joe Stateson wrote:
Managed to get one of those new Samsung 128gb flash USB drives. It had a Sony VAIO label. Opened it up and there was a single large Samsung chip on one side and a small circuit and a few other components on the other. 320gb was also available supposedly. I formatted it for FAT32 (per request of owner) at full 128gb using Acronis tool and verified that both a MAC and XP could read and write it. It was bought in Beijing two days ago. And you were ripped off. There are no 16GB flash chips on the market, only smaller ones. 16GB Flash drives use several chips for storage. If you actually mean 128GB, even worse. With the wave of counterfit Flash drives of the last few weeks, I would suspect that you got 1GB. Also note, that theses things likely give no error, but silently loose data. Arno |
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