I will only buy usb keys from newegg and I always make sure to pick Sold by Newegg. Newegg also has 3rd party sellers and they at one time cleaned up the outright fraud larger USB devices. The largest newegg carries(under sold by newegg) is 1tb with a reliable brand name and those are $80-$150. There is a 2tb one from a brand I have not heard of at $140 but nothing larger than 2tb is being sold. So newegg is at least policing this outright fraud. It appears that amazon is now possibly policing this outright fraud (a few years ago $30 1-2tb drives were all over both of them, all fake). On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 1:55 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.) > > Many thanks, > Ranjan > > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 11:54 AM Ranjan Maitra via users > > > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > I recently got a 16TB USB disk and was trying to mount it on Fedora 40 using spacefm. I get the following: > > > > > > > > Mount /dev/sdb: > > > > > > > > Status: Finished with error (Exit status 1). > > > > > > > > Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb is not a mountable file system. > > > > > > > > My first instinct was that I got taken for a ride so I hopped over to a colleague's Windoze machine, but there the USB drive is visible (with the capacitty of 15.2 GiB, as expected). > > > > > > > > So, is there anything special that I have to do to mount it on Fedora 40, because of its size? > > > > > > This looks very relevant to your case: > > > <https://askubuntu.com/q/1424120> It even discusses the Chinese > > > counterfeit hardware. > > > > > > 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 > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- _______________________________________________ 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
