[aklug] Re: Uhm.. look what I just got

Yup.. turns out they are 32 meg drives. :)

On 10/04/2010 07:05 AM, David Prentice wrote:
> 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-detecting-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. Oh how funny that
>> would have been and how I wish it were true.
>>
>> We ordered them anyways and allowed ourselves to be surprised. Surprise!
>>
>> :)
>>
>> 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 pr=
>> ice off list. :)
>>>>
>>>> Disk /dev/sdb: 134.2 GB, 134217728000 bytes
>>>> 2 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2080507 cylinders
>>>> Units =3D cylinders of 126 * 512 =3D 64512 bytes
>>>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>>> Disk identifier: 0x001c6c97
>>>>
>>>> =A0 Device Boot =A0 =A0 =A0Start =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 End =A0 =A0 =A0Blocks =
>> =A0 Id =A0System
>>>> /dev/sdb1 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1 =A0 =A0 2080508 =A0 131071984 =A0 =
>> =A0b =A0W95 FAT32
>>>>
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