New "30gb" memory stick?!

Greeny93 · 28 Apr 2013 at 18:49

Just recieved my cheapo memory stick,

It was ordered as a 2gb, stuck it in my computer and found this!

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and is the size of a micro SD card, (TINY)

EDIT

Results of running the H2testw as suggested...

! Weird... ! The drive shows as being 30gb, and when re-formated, re-formats to 30gb...

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I'm completely lost on this

I completely filled it with music, all is there, can see all the thumbnails etc but only a small % work ... Seems the stick can "hold" 30gb of data, it just can't access/use more than 2GB... :s

hummingman · 28 Apr 2013 at 18:50

Curious, Watson.

murah · 28 Apr 2013 at 18:52

Id transfer 6gb to it, if it works you got a 30gb stick I would assume.

Doomedspeed · 28 Apr 2013 at 18:54

Does it have any markings on it?

Looks legit.

Vibein · 28 Apr 2013 at 18:54

Get it full, see if it is real or fake.

Bargain if it comes through.

Greeny93 · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:01

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;O 21mb/sec... that isn't too shabby either !

Greeny93 · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:03

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Safe to say i'm pretty chuffed with my little 30gb for £2.80, new and smaller than a stamp!

Doomedspeed · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:04

Greeny93 said:
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Safe to say i'm pretty chuffed with my little 30gb for £2.80, new and smaller than a stamp!

You are one lucky man!

evohicks · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:05

LOL!
Nice buy m8.

Unicorn · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:06

Load it up fully with 30gb. But even so 4gb and uv put 5gb on is still pretty impressive! I know its going to be from a competitor and its against board rules so i don't suppose u can trust me were u got it from? I quite fancy my luck :')

Greeny93 · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:06

The write speeds aren't bad either ! 21mb/sec is very respectable.

The packaging etc, all stated 4gb... If only I could share this little find...

BuToNz · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:08

Looked at OP - Thought 'Oh noes, he doesn't understand formatting size losses' - Was pleasantly surprised!

Nice job OP, stock up I'd say

Out of curiosity what does it look like? Blank? Markings?

Surveyor · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:15

Have you checked that the files you've copied are all present and usable?

Greeny93 · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:17

I'll upload a picture, in a moment

One question... My speeds are all over the place !
I've never really looked at read/write speeds but copying counter strike from my ancient HDD, and it's getting the screenied, 20mb/s...

Copying from say, my SSD... it's getting nearer 2mb/s, why could this be?

up to 12gb, certain files get 20mb/s+, everything else 2mb/s

RetrogamerX · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:17

Nice one mate

Greeny93 · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:20

Surveyor said:
Have you checked that the files you've copied are all present and usable?

[EDIT]

Just checked some files, everything's working fine, at just over 12gb of files

Of course, I can only check the small word doc files ( just copied across random game files to fill it up quickly )

Unicorn · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:43

Copy a full game across and try play it. Its how i checked my 16GB stick

Filled it with movies/games

wazza300 · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:43

its the tardis of the memorystick world!!

if only ssd's came like that :eek:

InfiniteNoise · 28 Apr 2013 at 19:56

Try filling it up completely and see if works fine after that.

Not to go off topic but didn't you post the exact same thing sometime ago?

And for some reason, I remember seeing the exact same responses here.

panyan · 28 Apr 2013 at 20:04

whats that program that tests usb drives for fake capacities?