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DNSB · 10-20-2023, 04:35 PM

Just had fun with one friend's purchase from Amazon. He purchased 3 1TB USB 3.0 flash drives. Basically a no-name thumb drive with a 1TB sticker on it. When he connected one to his computer, it showed as a 930GB device which is about right for a 1TB drive. Sadly after he started backing up his data to it, it hit about 250GB and then started reporting errors. Strangely, the other two drives did the same thing.

At which point he called me and then dropped over with the 3 drives. We tested them with RMPrepUSB, FakeFlashTest, CheckFlash, ChipGenius and a few other utilities (I have a flash drive with my collection of such utilities). Though after the first test, we needn't to have bothered since all tests indicated the same thing which is the flash drives were not 1TB drives and clocked in around 235GB. Not to mention that their VID/PID did not show up on an internet search.

He's now having the fun of returning them to Amazon and perhaps purchasing a 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive that is actually 1TB and USB 3.0 though he is going to pay a bit more than $10 Cdn per drive.

10-20-2023, 04:35 PM	#1658
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,432 Karma: 171313058 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Just had fun with one friend's purchase from Amazon. He purchased 3 1TB USB 3.0 flash drives. Basically a no-name thumb drive with a 1TB sticker on it. When he connected one to his computer, it showed as a 930GB device which is about right for a 1TB drive. Sadly after he started backing up his data to it, it hit about 250GB and then started reporting errors. Strangely, the other two drives did the same thing. At which point he called me and then dropped over with the 3 drives. We tested them with RMPrepUSB, FakeFlashTest, CheckFlash, ChipGenius and a few other utilities (I have a flash drive with my collection of such utilities). Though after the first test, we needn't to have bothered since all tests indicated the same thing which is the flash drives were not 1TB drives and clocked in around 235GB. Not to mention that their VID/PID did not show up on an internet search. He's now having the fun of returning them to Amazon and perhaps purchasing a 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive that is actually 1TB and USB 3.0 though he is going to pay a bit more than $10 Cdn per drive.