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. On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 11:54 AM Ranjan Maitra via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> 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@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
