On 08/06/2014 03:55 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 08/06/2014 09:58 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I suspect that although they are marketed as 16GB, they vary due to
manufacturing quality by a block or so.
The other thing to consider if it is a bargain bin drive is that the
drive might be a counterfeit with mismarked capacity.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/All-About-Fake-Flash-Drives-2013-/10000000177553258/g.html
These are not sold under any name. They are 'blank' packaged.
So I figured that whatever that whatever is 'wrong' with them in
perhaps malware, would get blown away by Linux. I once DID buy a usb
drive from an online store that had a hidden partition with some
strange looking stuff....
The above URL uses counterfeit to mean drives are sold as large capacity
drives that really don't have large flash chips inside. The upstream
sellers buy small drives and reprogram the controllers to advertise a
larger size that the drive really can't deliver.
Well these are marketed as 16Gb. parted is showing one to be 15.6Gb.
And I have put over 8Gb on a couple of them. I think if MicroCenter was
seriously mismarketing them, their customers would be complaining in
droves. Being off by .4Gb would not be noticed and as in my cases
tossed off as low quality that needed to mark parts of it as not to be
used and thus the smaller size.
# parted /dev/sdb print
Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.6GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1000kB 513MB 512MB primary ext3
2 513MB 1025MB 512MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 1025MB 15.6GB 14.5GB primary ext4
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