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OT 1TB USB Sticks
There are 1tb sticks, but I've heard reliability is an issue. Also if you
are thinking about filling it with music, be careful a lot of devices don't like them as they are too big and formatted intents format too. I don't know if they can be partitioned to allow them to look like more than one drive. In Windows this works but lots of media players and recorders use weird formats not supported by these sticks. Brian -- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "tim..." wrote in message ... why can I find 1TB USB sticks online at prices around 20 quid and in B&M sties can't find them, at any price (TBH 20 *is* too cheap) what am I missing here? (I have noted the scam where some advertisers hide in the small print that their 1TB storage claim is a scam, but some claim it is genuine) |
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OT 1TB USB Sticks
Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
There are 1tb sticks, but I've heard reliability is an issue. Also if you are thinking about filling it with music, be careful a lot of devices don't like them as they are too big and formatted intents format too. I don't know if they can be partitioned to allow them to look like more than one drive. In Windows this works but lots of media players and recorders use weird formats not supported by these sticks. Brian Windows 10 may have gained some ability to support multiple primary partitions on a USB stick. But then, if you have some other version of Windows booted, only the first recognized partition will be accessible, the others get ignored. Linux is a bit better in this regard. You're more likely to be able to see and access the partitions. There's no problem with *genuine* USB flash sticks 1TB in size. Since no one can afford the genuine ones, all we're getting is reports concerning the shabby performance of the *counterfeit* ones. I checked the Kingston store earlier, and while Kingston has released press releases stating they have larger drives, the store only shows a 512GB one for sale. Other makers of so-called genuine materials, at least one of them wanted $1650 for the product, which is like 80x the price on Ebay for a counterfeit one. It should be relatively easy to determine you've been had, just based on price. Some of the smaller genuine USB sticks are $265, which is still 13x the price of a counterfeit item. The counterfeit sellers are so lazy, they don't even double the counterfeit price, when going from 1TB USB to 2TB USB. The additional cost is small, because all they're doing is typing a different number into their counterfeit stamper software. The fun stops, when the register inside the device, runs out of bits for storage. It's possible the end is 2TB because of a 32 bit register limit. They would be assigning even larger numbers, if the controller chip supported such scams. As for the reliability of USB Flash, sticks based on MLC chips (around 8GB max) are excellent. Modern TLC based Flash sticks are not all that good. This is one reason I would not be spending $1650 for a "genuine" USB TLC flash stick, when a 1TB SSD with MLC inside is available for a quarter of the price. You can then hang a USB3 to SATA cable off it, and make a USB flash drive out of your purchase. Paul |
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