Picked up one of these:
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Measures roughly 3 1/2" long x 1 5/8" wide x 1/4" thick. Tiny!
A USB-C port, one dim LED. Cable USB-C plug to full sized USB 3 plug.
2TB, yes, two terabytes!
Was $20 shipped from eBay, Amazon has them for $40.
No idea how rugged it may be. Still don't know if it is spoofing its actual size, but even a full format would take a while over USB 3 and I have no fast USB C ports to try with. Might get warm, really warm, so I'd probably use a USB 3 port for that test. No idea how a real write/read test would take to run.
If I had to guess (and if it is real) I'd think it contains a 0.85" drive, but searches online suggest those never exceeded 8GB and that all tiny HDDs are long obsolete.
Windows sees it as "VendorCo ProductCode USB Device." Came formatted as a single NTFS partition, volume name "Portable HDD."
I have copied a couple of large MP4 files to it and they play just fine, but it could still be 32GB of flash drive in there or something.
Measures roughly 3 1/2" long x 1 5/8" wide x 1/4" thick. Tiny!
A USB-C port, one dim LED. Cable USB-C plug to full sized USB 3 plug.
2TB, yes, two terabytes!
Was $20 shipped from eBay, Amazon has them for $40.
No idea how rugged it may be. Still don't know if it is spoofing its actual size, but even a full format would take a while over USB 3 and I have no fast USB C ports to try with. Might get warm, really warm, so I'd probably use a USB 3 port for that test. No idea how a real write/read test would take to run.
If I had to guess (and if it is real) I'd think it contains a 0.85" drive, but searches online suggest those never exceeded 8GB and that all tiny HDDs are long obsolete.
Windows sees it as "VendorCo ProductCode USB Device." Came formatted as a single NTFS partition, volume name "Portable HDD."
I have copied a couple of large MP4 files to it and they play just fine, but it could still be 32GB of flash drive in there or something.