On Wed, 23 May 2018 10:16:19 +0100, "wasbit"
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Time for the testing tools.

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and...-with-h2testw/


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Chip Genius

Controller Vendor: Alcor Micro
Controller Part-Number: AU6989SN-GTB/AU6998SN [F206] - F/W FA02
Flash ID code: ADDE14AB - Hynix H27QCG8D2F5R - 1CE/Single Channel
[MLC-16K] - Total Capacity = 8GB

Proving once again, that you really can get $13 worth
of storage, by paying $13 :-)

I take it, when they modified the declaration on the
drive, the controller was limited to declaring 2TB
and could not declare a larger number. Or they would
have set it to an even higher number.


So how does this magic trick work?
The drive has been formatted, rewritten with 1242 (242 GB) videos & several
instances of your big.bin files. Windows shows 411 GB used & 505 GB free
space.
Having transferred the drive from my desktop to a laptop running Linux Mint,
(I'm a novice), so as to isolate it from the original file source, a
notification pops up saying all the contents could not be displayed.

If that message was correct none of the files could be displayed
yet you say some still showed.

Free
space is 543 GB because several of the bin files aren't showing.
All the video files played from a random selection.

So the message was some of the contents could not be displayed.

To my mind, it would seem there is much more than 8 GB available although I
wouldn't trust the drive for anything important.

Google the device number or add more data until it gives write errors.