Teardown of cheap USB drives shows storage capacity faked via microSD card

From 732 bytes to nowhere: shutting down Copy Fail in production

Sandisk Launches Compact Extreme Fit USB-C Flash Drive with 1TB Capacity

The Extreme Fit has been formally announced, and this dongle-like USB Type-C flash drive is available with up to 1 TB capacity. Sandisk also

Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit

u/Hartkralle says that eBay refunds them when they report these fake drives, so getting scammers banned from the platform is worth their eff

What's inside the Kingston "Dual Portable SSD"?

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iCloud Storage Full Yet Again? Here's a Fast Fix

I didn't move all my files, but in just 15 minutes I made a big dent.

USB flash drives lose data over time due to NAND flash degradation — here's how to protect your files

If you have a drawer full of USB drives you transferred who-knows-what to over the years, check them because your data could slowly be degra