"Jason" wrote in message
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In article ,
lid says...
nothing lasts forever, but the good ones should last a very long time.
unfortunately, some are not particularly good, possibly counterfeit.

A friend and former colleague is a very experienced EE who
works independently as a software and circuit designer and
also writes technical articles on computer topics for
magazines that you and I probably read (and journal
articles we probably don't...). I have asked him the same
questions about these gadgets. His response: "To a first
approximation ALL such devices on eBay are counterfeit."

Be careful. Buy them from places like Newegg or Frys.

I have a 1TB thumb drive, bought me as a present at a cost of £10 (13.5$).
Considering its price, I was dubious as to its capacity.
Windows shows it as 917GB with 489GB used & 428GB free space.
The 489GB was the most I could scrape together & took nearly a day to write
to the drive.

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Regards
wasbit