Noticed how cheap USB sticks are now?
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Sod it, for £9 I've decided to just stick with a laptop HDD inside the enclosure, 60GB of storage, will see how long it can last 
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Well USB caddy holding a 2.5" 5400rpm hdd is WIN, much faster xfer rates than a pendrive.
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Well USB caddy holding a 2.5" 5400rpm hdd is WIN, much faster xfer rates than a pendrive.
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Damn, wish I'd come here first. I've just stuck two late night bids for $0.99 on a couple of "32GB" flash drives. They aren't pretending to be branded but I was wondering why they are so cheap...
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FWIW, I got a 16gb mp3 player for around £13 recently, and was suprised to find that it does actually hold 16gb. You may get lucky!
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There is a company called PhotoFast who offered a product that uses six SD cards in RAID to create an SSD;
I would have thought that using USB flash drives would be incredibly bulky in comparison. Either way, it's a pretty useless considering how rapidly SSDs are coming down in price.
There is a company called PhotoFast who offered a product that uses six SD cards in RAID to create an SSD;
I would have thought that using USB flash drives would be incredibly bulky in comparison. Either way, it's a pretty useless considering how rapidly SSDs are coming down in price.
Even so, that does seem kinda cool, tying together SD cards to make a SSD
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Every now and then the manufacturer will let out a bad flash drive (i.e. doesnt register as a valid directory and can't be reformatted) from the assembly line. If you happen to be one of the unfortunate people to come across one of these USB, check out this nice article which will walk you through the process of recovering the drive to full usage. Be sure to follow instructions as they are given in the post.
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What did you convert from?Some places are overpriced and my mum was a victim -_-
Although entire music collection on 16GB?
I would only get 15 albums or so
Ok since the USB HDD didn't quite work out I bought today a 16GB Kingston USB stick for £22.
Genuine this time
Genuine this time
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Its possible that resampling to a higher bit rate may allow more head room and quality for adding eq and other effects, but its sounds like you're not and have wasted time and space. Still! the placebo effect is alive and kicking!
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Maybe the bigger numbers lulled me into a false sense of security.
Alas, I admit I was a fool.
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I feel quite good that I provided some lulz though, find the positives in everything! Am I right?
Alas, I admit I was a fool.
\o/
I feel quite good that I provided some lulz though, find the positives in everything! Am I right?
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Never buy the cheap SD cards/USB sticks off Ebay - so many are fakes it is just not worth the risk.
The fakes will report 8 or 16 Gb but in reality they are much lower capacity with the controller re-programmed to lie about it. You only find this out when you try and read back the data beyond the actual capacity.
You can not rely on the sellers good feedback score - even if they appear to have many satisfied customers this is possibly also faked.
Best thing to do is go to a real shop - e.g. OcUK...
The fakes will report 8 or 16 Gb but in reality they are much lower capacity with the controller re-programmed to lie about it. You only find this out when you try and read back the data beyond the actual capacity.
You can not rely on the sellers good feedback score - even if they appear to have many satisfied customers this is possibly also faked.
Best thing to do is go to a real shop - e.g. OcUK...
I've converted my music into 4096kbps, 1GB an album.
320kbps is plenty any more is just silly.
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Quoted for truth!
Woot!