These devices are made of lowest cost SSD/memory-chips from Chinese markets
(Ahhh, I hate Chinese market). Few writes (IO) in would just corrupt it. The
best check (and fastest) would be to write multiple copies of small size(
~4KB) files in it to full the capacity. Dang, and its gone :).
Don't fo
Hi
Paalika bazar is full of fraudters, one should not buy such devices from a
reputed shop.
I generally shop with Cost2Cost and Computer Empire in Nehru place.
Similar issue arises when one of my friend bought a 30GB pendrive 2 years
ago.
A Senior who was writing file system for an embedded devic
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently a friend of mine brought a USB pen Drive (Flash Disk) of 500
> GB for Rs 1500-/ from Palika Bazaar.
>
> First I don't believe it. However i tried it on my system and checked
> using df -h and it showed 500 GB (free space 498 GB
Why not reformat it using fat32 / ntfs and see the "actual" size ?
500GB Pen drive for 1500/- ? Not likely. 16GB costs a bit more than that.
Regards
Abhinav
http://indimark.blogspot.com
http://www.employees.org/~abhinav/blog
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recen
Now a day lot of fake drives are coming
Its works good for a while and ultimately go to trash.
You cannot copy the bulk files to FAT file systems
If u have 4 gb and all , split the files(100/200mb) using .rar format and
then copy the files.
With regards
Shahul Hameed
-Original Message-
Hi Ram,
Hi
1. Incredible as it may be i refuse to belive that this small device
is actually 500 Gig so how does one verify that. I could copy data
and i think it will give up after about 10 GIg or less, but is there
any other way
The easiest way might be to write 498 Gigs on the flash
2010/4/12 Mallikarjun :
>> Recently a friend of mine brought a USB pen Drive (Flash Disk) of 500
>> GB for Rs 1500-/ from Palika Bazaar.
>
> If this is true, surely I would like to know the device specifications, and
> would like to own one for myself.
>
>
> 2)Copy a image/movie of bigger size say
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently a friend of mine brought a USB pen Drive (Flash Disk) of 500
> GB for Rs 1500-/ from Palika Bazaar.
>
If this is true, surely I would like to know the device specifications, and
would like to own one for myself.
>
> First I d
Hi
Recently a friend of mine brought a USB pen Drive (Flash Disk) of 500
GB for Rs 1500-/ from Palika Bazaar.
First I don't believe it. However i tried it on my system and checked
using df -h and it showed 500 GB (free space 498 GB)
Second its formatted to FAT 16.
So my questions
1. Incredible
