Picked up 128gb flash drive: $39 USD

External Since: Jan 24, 2008 Posts: 1

Managed to get one of those new Samsung 128gb flash USB drives. It had a
Sony VAIO label. Opened it up and there was a single large Samsung chip on
one side and a small circuit and a few other components on the other. 320gb
was also available supposedly. I formatted it for FAT32 (per request of
owner) at full 128gb using Acronis tool and verified that both a MAC and XP
could read and write it. It was bought in Beijing two days ago.

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External Since: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 118

Considering 1GB chips are still over a buck, it must be counterfeit.
You have to fill it with data and verify the contents.

The chinese have also created the 4GB iPod MP4 clone,
which is actually 1GB and has no mpeg-4 support at all.

"Joe Stateson" <jstateson.DeleteThis@swri.edu> wrote in message news:13phg0bpnpqp062@corp.supernews.com...
> Managed to get one of those new Samsung 128gb flash USB drives. It had a
> Sony VAIO label. Opened it up and there was a single large Samsung chip on
> one side and a small circuit and a few other components on the other. 320gb
> was also available supposedly. I formatted it for FAT32 (per request of
> owner) at full 128gb using Acronis tool and verified that both a MAC and XP
> could read and write it. It was bought in Beijing two days ago.
>
>