Wacky flash drive, need help

[jaclaz]

Maybe it was a fake one. There are many 1Gb and above USB drives that are actually much smaller. The Chinese seem to like these sorts of scams.

Yes, if you have a look at

http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/

you'll find hundred of reports of "smart" people buying LARGE sticks from "occasional" sources, like some e-bay auctions, for a SMALL price and later find that the stick is a fake one.

But I thought that the smallest was 16 Mb, not 8Mb, so maybe this is not the case.

jaclaz

[LLXX]

Maybe it was a fake one. There are many 1Gb and above USB drives that are actually much smaller. The Chinese seem to like these sorts of scams.

Yes, if you have a look at

http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/

you'll find hundred of reports of "smart" people buying LARGE sticks from "occasional" sources, like some e-bay auctions, for a SMALL price and later find that the stick is a fake one.

But I thought that the smallest was 16 Mb, not 8Mb, so maybe this is not the case.

jaclaz

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive

Memory capacity typically ranges from 8 megabytes up to 64 gigabytes [1], limited only by current flash memory densities.