I'm still leery. Have you tested the drives with writing big piles of
data to them, or maybe a program like h2testw?
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/h2testw-gold-standard-in-de=
tecting-fake-capacity-flash/
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
> My initial guess before ordering them was that it was fraud.. Infact I
> had a lengthy discussion about it that lead to a humorous discussion
> about how once plugged in the drive would register itself as hundreds
> of recycled flash memory chips as distinct drives. =A0Oh how funny that
> would have been and how I wish it were true.
>
> We ordered them anyways and allowed ourselves to be surprised. =A0Surpris=
e!
>
> :)
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:20 PM, doug <dndmaclean@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/33110.aspx
>>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:34 PM, "Shane R. Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com> wrote=
:
>>
>>> http://imgur.com/1bvGQ.jpg
>>>
>>> We have... 10 or so.. if anybody wants to purchase one just name your p=
r=3D
> ice off list. :)
>>>
>>> Disk /dev/sdb: 134.2 GB, 134217728000 bytes
>>> 2 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2080507 cylinders
>>> Units =3D3D cylinders of 126 * 512 =3D3D 64512 bytes
>>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>> Disk identifier: 0x001c6c97
>>>
>>> =3DA0 Device Boot =3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0Start =3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0 End =
=3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0Blocks =3D
> =3DA0 Id =3DA0System
>>> /dev/sdb1 =3DA0 * =3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0 =3DA0 1 =3DA0 =3DA0 2080508 =
=3DA0 131071984 =3DA0 =3D
> =3DA0b =3DA0W95 FAT32
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