On 9/2/20 01:59, jim bell wrote: > Be VERY cautious about buying the larger-capacity USB drives, say 128 GB > to 1 TB drives. Unless you buy a few name-brands, like PNY, Sandisk, > Samsung, it looks like the majority of the devices are fake. What they > do is to re-program the devices (which were probably weak or defective > to begin with) to make it look like they have far more capacity than > they really do. If you try to write to them, at some point they will > simply over-write the much-smaller capacity that they really have, which > might be 4 or 16 Gigabytes > > There are free programs which check these devices to see if they > actually have the capacity they claim.
Personally, I swear by Micro Center branded devices, they seem to be quite reliable for the price point. Not too long ago I rolled the dice with some no-name 16 GB disks from Amazon (at about the same price point as Micro Center's media) I was intending to use as boot media, and other than being rather slow even for USB 2.0 and identifying as "VendorCo ProductCode" they are decent. I'm hearing modern DVD+R/DVD-R media can be a bit more finicky, though, particularly the dual layer variants. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[email protected]> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
