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Post #426,868 by rcareaga 12/22/18 6:31:19 PM 12/22/18 6:31:19 PM Reply	Storage I won’t even tell you how much this cost, except to say that I seldom spend as little as this at the corner grocer. Two terabytes. Fuck. Me. cordially,
Post #426,870 by boxley 12/22/18 7:15:44 PM 12/22/18 7:15:44 PM Reply	nice "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #426,872 by drook 12/22/18 7:39:24 PM 12/22/18 7:39:24 PM Reply	2 Tb? Where did you get that? I just got a 2Tb external drive and it's about halfway between deck of cards and pulp paperback size. -- Drew
Post #426,873 by rcareaga 12/22/18 8:14:48 PM 12/22/18 8:14:48 PM Reply	Re: 2 Tb? Where did you get that? Here, for one. cordially,
Post #426,881 by drook 12/22/18 10:29:18 PM 12/22/18 10:29:18 PM Reply	Holy ****! Did memory suddenly get cheap? That price seems ... implausible? -- Drew
Post #426,874 by a6l6e6x 12/22/18 8:56:12 PM 12/22/18 8:56:12 PM Reply	Hard to believe! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #426,883 by static 12/22/18 10:35:36 PM 12/22/18 10:35:36 PM Reply	Odds are it's fake. Shoddy Chinese makers have been doing that with memory cards for years. Wade.
Post #426,887 by Ashton 12/22/18 11:18:50 PM 12/22/18 11:18:50 PM Reply	Remember Gibson/'SpinRite'™ ? Wonder how long it'd take to check ..every bloody byte {{sigh}} ... or maybe say, "tilt"? (Haven't checked-in on Gibson in eons.. and that used to boot on MSDOS ... but it surely did do the stuff he claimed.. as you watched the magic on-screen.) ∑ in Assy. Language.
Post #426,886 by malraux 12/22/18 11:14:13 PM 12/22/18 11:14:13 PM Reply	Probably fake. Configured to report 2TB but copied data will either be corrupted or just copy over the same areas repeatedly. There's a decent chance it's filled with malware too. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #426,888 by rcareaga 12/22/18 11:33:47 PM 12/22/18 11:33:47 PM Reply	Re: Probably fake. I’ll let you know. I reformatted the thing for Mac use, will fill it up with VIDEO_TS files and see how it works out. cordially,
Post #426,889 by rcareaga 12/22/18 11:46:41 PM 12/22/18 11:47:02 PM Reply	Re: Probably fake. I appear to have been had. Fifteen dollars i’ll never have back again. Sob! Shit. credulously, Edited by rcareaga Dec. 22, 2018, 11:47:02 PM EST Expand All History
Post #426,890 by boxley 12/23/18 1:23:56 AM 12/23/18 1:23:56 AM Reply	So ok what did the OS actually claim it had "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #426,916 by rcareaga 12/23/18 7:00:02 PM 12/23/18 7:00:02 PM Reply	Re: So ok what did the OS actually claim it had The OS claims 2TB. The OS also informs me that it is unable to write a 10K text file to the device. A relatively inexpensive reminder that a spot of due diligence is always sound practice, and that if it’s too good to be true it is probably neither true nor good. cordially,
Post #426,895 by static 12/23/18 2:52:57 AM 12/23/18 2:52:57 AM Reply	Tell eBay. I hear they don't like people selling fraudulent product. Wade.
Post #426,899 by drook 12/23/18 10:44:31 AM 12/23/18 10:44:31 AM Reply	Are they better than Amazon? Because they don't seem to care. -- Drew
Post #426,931 by static 12/25/18 2:40:38 AM 12/25/18 2:42:20 AM Reply	Dunno. Never had to do it. But they do encourage people to report shonky products. One problem with this is the whack-a-mole effect as banned sellers can just open another account. But also report 1 star on the feedback. That _will_ get the sellers attention as many live in deathly fear of less-than-perfect feedback. You can tell because of how many listings ask you to rate them 5 stars or contact them first to sort out any problems if you don't want to give them 5 stars. Wade. Edited by static Dec. 25, 2018, 02:42:20 AM EST Expand All History
Post #426,932 by pwhysall 12/25/18 5:26:59 AM 12/25/18 5:26:59 AM Reply	No kidding. I bought, from a seller on Amazon, a USB floppy drive (to retrieve one shit low-res JPEG off a single floppy disc) for £6. It didn't work. Turns out that the specific drive in question just doesn't work with Windows 10 - something to do with an iffy USB device ID that Windows 7 and earlier was happy to let slide. The device was listed as being compatible with Windows 10. I posted a one-star review saying that if one lists a device as working with Windows 10, it had better damn work with Windows 10, and started looking for another device. The vendor was falling-over-themselves apologetic - offering a refund or a replacement drive. I opted for the replacement as retrieval of the contents of the disc was a priority task, on the understanding that my computer runs Windows 10, and this drive absolutely 100% needs to work on Windows 10. Replacement drive was sent, and lo, it did indeed work. And then the pleading began. Please change your review. After all we sent you a working drive! Oh, go on. 1 star reviews are bad for us. Pleeeeeeeease change your review. And so on, and so forth, and et cetera. Did I change my review? Did I, fuck.
Post #426,920 by Ashton 12/23/18 7:47:00 PM 12/23/18 7:47:00 PM Reply	I'd still like to view whatever be your Heads-Up to Ebayatron.. (Steal a few pointers, maybe?) oblig. ;^> PS: IIRC they/ePay Will get you a refund, but I'd rather see the video of the brigands all tarred avec feathers, whether in China or ..Georgia?

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