Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 2:55 PM Ranjan Maitra via users
 wrote:
> On Wed Nov06'24 01:50:18PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > From: Roger Heflin 
> > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:50:18 -0600
> > To: [e-mail], Community support for Fedora users
> >  
> > CC: Ranjan Maitra 
> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> > Subject: Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40
> >
> > If you paid less than US$1000, then the only 2 options are: it is
> > stolen (pretty unlikely as they would still sell it for a high price)
> > or fake.
> >
> > And if it is just a usb key device (not an external disk enclosure) it
> > must be fake because I don't think you can actually fit the memory
> > chips for 16tb in something that small.
> >
> > So this is likely a much smaller usb device with firmware to make it
> > appear like a 16tb device.
>
> Indeed, I got taken for a ride, thank you! I will ask for my money back, and see.
>
> Just curious, what is the largest amount for which memory chips can currently fit in a USB? 1-2 TB? Or far less?
>
> (I was not aware of all these complexities.)

You will spot it like a boss next time :) How do you think we learned it?

Jeff