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Hey guys, my dad just bought this from a Japanese website, and it just arrive, I connected to a computer and it has 1.90TB, I never seen this in my life, neither seen reviews in the internet, can someone please tell me if this is safe to use, I have a bad feeling about it, my dad is just purchasing stuff without really knowing much of them or taking in consideration the consequence. 

The website of purchase:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-Real-gran-capacidad-giratoria-de-metal-usb-flash-drive-2TB-1TB-acero-inoxidable-U-disco/32298471034.html

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holy shit

 

thats an epic scam for 11$

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tell your dad to fill it with his personal information and send it back to the nigerian prince's trusted advisor.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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lol, there's still companies doing this?

 

it's not a real 2TB, it's just a regular 4-32GB drive that's modded to look like a 2TB in Windows. 

 

This is a really old trick in the book, back in the day there were lots of drives marketed as 4GB or 8GB when in reality they were like 512MB.

 

@Lediou DO NOT USE IT FOR STORING ANY DATA THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE. Once you write more data onto it then what the drive can physically hold, it will more then likely corrupt the drive and any files on it. Of course there's little way of actually knowing how much this physical limit is, it can be as high as 32GB or as low as 1GB.

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Just for comparison sake for a true 1TB drive from Kingston it costs almost $1000 usually and is very large for a standard USB

 

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http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-DataTraveler-Predator-1TB-DTHXP30/dp/B00E65QM8O

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Just for comparison sake for a true 1TB drive from Kingston it costs almost $1000 usually and is very large for a standard USB

http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-DataTraveler-Predator-1TB-DTHXP30/dp/B00E65QM8O 

You forgot to delete the space at the end of that link

 

http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-DataTraveler-Predator-1TB-DTHXP30/dp/B00E65QM8O

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Just for comparison sake for a true 1TB drive from Kingston it costs almost $1000 usually and is very large for a standard USB

http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-DataTraveler-Predator-1TB-DTHXP30/dp/B00E65QM8O 

error 404. new link?

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Their is a firmware hack you can do on them to trick windows into thinking it is a 2TB flash drive but in reality its not, maybe 4GB or less. Once you fill it up to the 4GB or what ever size it truly is, then you cant put anymore data on it and windows will still think you have 1.96TB left.

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So the business model is to hope nobody ever tries to put more than 32 gb or whatever it has? Actually that's not a terrible plan seeing how most people will use even very large USB drives for a few pics and maybe a video.
 

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I'll be the first to admit that, a few years back, I'd gotten a 128GB thumbdrive in Panthip Plaza, BangKok while I was on holiday. This was when 32GB flash drive in my neck of the woods cost a pretty penny and 64GB thumbdrive was near vaporware ^_^ . I was so naively stoked then, 128GB thumbdrive and it didn't cost a bomb! -_-  Learned my lesson when I plugged it into my home system, somehow, I couldn't put more than 14GB of data before it'd freeze my system..... :blink:  Since then, I'd only buy thumbdrive from reputed shops in the tech mall here.......and I'd make sure I know what the biggest memory size flash drive available then. Seriously, when something sounds too good to be true, it is.

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