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Post by polrbehr on Dec 1, 2021 15:40:36 GMT -5
Saw an ad on Fvkbook yesterday for huge capacity flash drives - starting at 2Tb and going up in increments to 16Tb. A Search shows they are fake/scam, anyone got any real world info on them?
I was thinking about something like 4 or 8 Tb to use as a backup, I figured it would be a lot simpler than a plug-in external HD.
So tell me it's bullshit before I buy one.
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Post by afterburnt on Dec 1, 2021 15:57:23 GMT -5
Saw an ad on Fvkbook yesterday for huge capacity flash drives - starting at 2Tb and going up in increments to 16Tb. A Search shows they are fake/scam, anyone got any real world info on them? I was thinking about something like 4 or 8 Tb to use as a backup, I figured it would be a lot simpler than a plug-in external HD. So tell me it's bullshit before I buy one. The price should tell you if it's BS or not. How much are they asking?
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Post by polrbehr on Dec 1, 2021 20:03:56 GMT -5
IIRC, it was $69.99 for the 8Tb, and $109.99 for the 16Tb.
But looking further into the offer from Rangpoa, they only accept Paypal, no way I'd buy this without the protection of a CC, so I guess that's that.
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Post by afterburnt on Dec 1, 2021 20:36:33 GMT -5
IIRC, it was $69.99 for the 8Tb, and $109.99 for the 16Tb. But looking further into the offer from Rangpoa, they only accept Paypal, no way I'd buy this without the protection of a CC, so I guess that's that. If it sounds too good to be true...she probably has a dick.
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Post by pitdogg2 on Dec 2, 2021 7:03:49 GMT -5
Let's be real, why do you need the Smithsonian institute on a stick?
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Post by jstas on Dec 2, 2021 10:39:14 GMT -5
This is the cheapest 1TB thumbdrive I've found: www.newegg.com/sandisk-model-sdddc4-1t00-g46-1tb/p/N82E16820173485SanDisk is legit too so with addressing on the memory structure, you'll get about 920-940 GB of usable space on 1 TB of drive space. 1 TB is about as big as it gets on that form factor. Above 1TB, you get into portable hard drives, not thumb drives. It's not super big but not exactly small either: www.newegg.com/p/0BD-0692-00006Anything that is a thumbdrive that is listed as bigger than 1 TB is a scam that is usually a lower capacity flashed to appear like it has more capacity. So, like, they flash the firmware on a 32 GB drive to present 1 TB of space to the serial bus. Since the serial bus doesn't address the memory until it's needed (hence the reason it's called flash), it will fill up that 32 GB. Then people who don't understand how memory allocation and serial bus I/O works will tell you that the thumbdrive throttles down your read/write speed over 32 GB on that drive. But, that's not what is happening. The thumbdrive's firmware is not that complex. What is actually happening is that your system is trying to write to a memory location on that flash drive that doesn't exist. So it's making an attempt and failing, then making another attempt and failing until a certain failure threshold is reached. Then it fails that block out and moves on to the next one that doesn't exist. This exponentially increases write times from a tenth of a second to probably 5 seconds per block error. There are millions of blocks in just one gigabyte of data space. Multiple that by 5 seconds each and you see why write times get stupid slow. The reason files get corrupted is not because of the slow write times but because the block structure defined by the firmware has a pointer for the data to a block that doesn't physically exist. So even if it looks like your huge file wrote successfully to the drive because there's a pointer for it to a location in memory, that location isn't there so the data the pointer says is there isn't readable. This, in turn, causes your operating system to see a missing or incomplete file that is corrupted because the pointer says it's there but it can't access the physical location. That's a data corruption. So if you're in the market for HUGE thumbdrives, go with a reputable name like SanDisk or Corsair or something. 'Cause if they don't have a thumbdrive bigger than 1 TB then thumbdrives bigger than 1 TB don't exist.
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Post by polrbehr on Dec 2, 2021 13:40:20 GMT -5
pitdogg2 , it seems no matter how large digital storage is, I can eventually fill it. My desktop PC came with a monster 2Tb internal HD, end of story right? Nope, between music files (and p*rn ), IIRC I have about 300Gb left? The idea was to plug this into the USB on my router and use it as a cloud-type storage thing - though I am sure setting that up would be above my pay grade so I'd be back here sooner or later asking how to accomplish that LOL. jstas , thanks for the info, I will be more diligent when I look to buy storage devices from now on, that's for sure. And since I'm thinking about it, why the fuck doesn't Fvckbook "fact-check" these bogus ads that pop up all over the place?? I guess they're too busy being the Vaxx Police.
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Post by pitdogg2 on Dec 2, 2021 14:33:15 GMT -5
why the fuck doesn't Fvckbook "fact-check" these bogus ads that pop up all over the place?? Simple they PAY DOLLARS!! Yes of course I knew you had the massive "library" of naughty bits..... Freak!!
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