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Video Card(s) | Palit RTX2080 Ti Dual 11GB DDR6 |
Storage | Samsung EVO 970 500GB SSD M.2 & 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm |
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Power Supply | Seasonic Focus GX-850 Gold 80+ |
Mouse | Some Corsair lost the box forgot the model |
Keyboard | Motospeed |
Software | Windows 10 |
Lol I was expecting it, but I thought that if XP said it was 16GB it'd be 16GB and not that the real capacity is so skilfully hidden!
So my dad received his cheap usb pen-drive from ebay... I was going to buy a similar 16GB one from OcUK but he also bought me one off ebay... because they're cheap (duh!) Mine hasn't arrived yet.
We expected that speed-wise it won't be great, however we thought that at least it'd be reliable...
I copied some movies on it, around 12GB. Only 4 worked. The rest either were corrupt, or the actual file was garbage (you know the file-name instead of being written in normal letters it was all lines and squares and symbols).
Now I downloaded Check Flash 1.03 -- the first funny thing is that although I formatted 3 times Check Flash still says that the drive is not empty. On windows it shows that it is empty, and I have set XP to view all hidden & system files...
Now, in the middle of running Check Flash, it only shows one file called $chkflsh.tmp of approx 4GB which I assume is the temporary file the program is using to check the drive.
I came across this on the net, and it kinda sounds familiar, the parts I bolded actually happened to dad's stick:
Here's a link to the ebay site. Being the nice guy that he is, my dad gave them positive feedback as soon as he got the item...:shadedshu
So my dad received his cheap usb pen-drive from ebay... I was going to buy a similar 16GB one from OcUK but he also bought me one off ebay... because they're cheap (duh!) Mine hasn't arrived yet.
We expected that speed-wise it won't be great, however we thought that at least it'd be reliable...
I copied some movies on it, around 12GB. Only 4 worked. The rest either were corrupt, or the actual file was garbage (you know the file-name instead of being written in normal letters it was all lines and squares and symbols).
Now I downloaded Check Flash 1.03 -- the first funny thing is that although I formatted 3 times Check Flash still says that the drive is not empty. On windows it shows that it is empty, and I have set XP to view all hidden & system files...
Now, in the middle of running Check Flash, it only shows one file called $chkflsh.tmp of approx 4GB which I assume is the temporary file the program is using to check the drive.
I came across this on the net, and it kinda sounds familiar, the parts I bolded actually happened to dad's stick:
# The fake will deceive you by displaying the 'false/oversize' capacity when you connect it to your PC, however they will NOT be able to store the data to the stated capacity.
# So you MUST perform data test by writing a BIG (1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB) file to the usb drive, then READ back the same file from the usb drive to another location on your PC to compare. The READ back process is the only proven way to uncover its 'REAL' capacity.
# The fake will take an excessively long time (1 to 7 hours) only 'pretending' writing but the data was not actually being written. Hence when you try to read it back, it will claim data as being CORRUPT. Many have reported that many strange files/folders eg. 00000.000 will appear and you cannot delete them.
Here's a link to the ebay site. Being the nice guy that he is, my dad gave them positive feedback as soon as he got the item...:shadedshu
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