On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 2:55 PM Ranjan Maitra via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed Nov06'24 01:50:18PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > From: Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:50:18 -0600 > > To: noloader@xxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users > > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > CC: Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra@xxxxxxx> > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40 > > > > If you paid less than US$1000, then the only 2 options are: it is > > stolen (pretty unlikely as they would still sell it for a high price) > > or fake. > > > > And if it is just a usb key device (not an external disk enclosure) it > > must be fake because I don't think you can actually fit the memory > > chips for 16tb in something that small. > > > > So this is likely a much smaller usb device with firmware to make it > > appear like a 16tb device. > > Indeed, I got taken for a ride, thank you! I will ask for my money back, and see. > > Just curious, what is the largest amount for which memory chips can currently fit in a USB? 1-2 TB? Or far less? > > (I was not aware of all these complexities.) You will spot it like a boss next time :) How do you think we learned it? Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
