1 TB, 2 TB flash drives???

[tom42]

I bought a "2TB" flash drive from China for $16.95 out of curiosity..
I really think I've been bamboozled, but it DOES hold 2 TB, apparently successfully. How do they DO that?

 

[atljsf]

it does hold them but once you unplug them, the files get corrupted

it is the same as those old 1 gb thumb drives sold decades ago, it is a 128 megabytes usb drive but with some partition and soldiering points extra the trick works, untill you unplug it

then all files got garble and unreadable, only the first files on the real megabytes or gigabytes will work

 

[dextermat]

hi,
They are fake email the seller for reimbursement.
You can most likely you have a 8 or 16 GB drive and software makes it 2 tb. Once you reach the limits, it rewrite on the data already on it.

It is explained on youtube

 

[USAFRet]

I bought a "2TB" flash drive from China for $16.95 out of curiosity..
I really think I've been bamboozled, but it DOES hold 2 TB, apparently successfully. How do they DO that?

No, it tells you it is holding 2TB.
In reality, it only holds 32 or 16GB.

For instance, this one from ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-Flash-Drive-Memory-USB-Stick-U-Disk-Pen-Drive-2TB-Pen-drive-8GB-512GB-/322416942145

Read this description carefully: (Actual Storage Capacity)

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

this site lists 4 programs for testing the real capacity of these fake capacity usb memory sticks

try one or two of them before complaining to the seller and the web site they are advertising on
I normally use this one H2testw

It can also test real hard disks or SSD's for surface defects or be used to erase a disk partition.

regards
Mike Barnes

 

[USAFRet]

I bought a "2TB" flash drive from China for $16.95 out of curiosity..
I really think I've been bamboozled, but it DOES hold 2 TB, apparently successfully. How do they DO that?

Just for your testing...copy 1.6TB to that flash drive.
Then, copy that 1.6TB data back out to a different folder.

See what you get for your $16.95.

 

[atljsf]

1.6 tbs of unreadable unusable damaged files? 😀

 

[boosted1g]

This is a real 2TB flash drive: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X1CSCZB/ref=twister_B06XCK8SHL?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

At 70% price you should be skeptical, at 1% price that is more shady then someone selling a "ferrari" for $5k