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Old 02-11-09, 09:02 PM   #1
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Hi All,

Recently one of my co-workers told me about a Flash based USB Thumb Drive of 20 GB Capacity. An argument ensured as I told him that such capacity is not available..flash based thumb drives have the following capacity
1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB...
To my surprise he bought the thumb drive the next day and the capacity is 20 GB...
The brand is Kingston and I have already checked the model and series on Kingston site. It shows the maximum capacity of this series to be 8 GB maximum...
I am totally stumped...
Anyone know whats happening?
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may be its a limited edition series and out of production now..

btw can you post the model number.
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No its not, its very much in production but only available upto 8 GB capacity.

I think its not original...but still the question 20 GB?

HOW HOW HOW???
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This ad says there are drives upto 64 gb including the 20 gb drive... can't say if its true or not .


Kingston Pen Drive 8GB@500, 16GB@600, 20GB@750, 30GB@950
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could be a fake. have u actually tried copyiong 20GB (or even 19GB) data to it?
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Thats what I am telling you guys. Check out the entire range of USB Drives from Kingston

Kingston Technology Company - USB Flash Drives -

And the one which I saw was a Data Traveler 101 which incidentally comes only upto 8 GB capacity...

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could be a fake. have u actually tried copyiong 20GB (or even 19GB) data to it?
I checked the properties, it showed something like 19 GB as available...

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i also have a data traveler 101 2GB.

you saw a 101 series flash drive with 20GB capacity???????

can you take a picture of that drive with mobile and post here, i am dying to see that. This is really a master piece(fake)
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Will get it tom, if the guy brings it to office. I asked where he got it from and was told that his cousin or something bought it from Dubai...
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I checked the properties, it showed something like 19 GB as available...
I have actually seen fake usb drives tweaked to show much higher capacities in the "properties" option than they actually have. but when u try to copy data to it, it would fail to copy beyond the actual capacity.
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I have actually seen fake usb drives tweaked to show much higher capacities in the "properties" option than they actually have. but when u try to copy data to it, it would fail to copy beyond the actual capacity.
do you know how ?
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