On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 16:18 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> Install package f3 and run the f3probe.
> Probable a fake flash. Bought an 8g flash that was too
> cheap. It comes up originally as 4 2T usb devices, but the
> f3probe calls it as fake, and reports it as 4 about 64G
> devices so it again looks nice, but is useless fake device.
> Facebook SCAMs that they keep pushing and getting
> bigger and bigger.
NB: Don't expect to be able to recover data from the drive after this.
If the drive is fake, the test is going to overwrite data.
Description : F3 is a utility to test for fake flash drives and cards. It is a
: Free Software alternative to h2testw. f3write will fill the
: unused part of a filesystem with files NNNN.fff with known
: content, and f3read will analyze the files to determine whether
: the contents are corrupted, as happens with fake flash.
A real drive should just get further filled up to capacity, fake drives
often wrap-around when filled up beyond their real capacity.
It boggles the mind how someone could go to the trouble of making fake
drives. Is it just selling of failed builds?
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