Is it a real 8gb pendrive? May it really work perfect on linux and mac os? Is it a sticker with an 8gb info? Can i remove that sticker?
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Works great on windows but not sure on the other operating systems and yes it holds 8 gigabytes and the last one dnt know
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It is genuine. All drives will show reduce size due to the method used when formatting. It has to do with the 1046k of unformated drive to make 1000k when formatted.
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no it's a piece of junk send it back. I tried it in 3 different computers with 4 different drives emailed to me from the company and never got it to work. All I got for the seller was a sorry and to send it back to some place in China at my own expense. also they have poor tech support not really knowing their product.
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I didn't buy a 16 GB Kingston from Amazon, but I understandone thing or two about them. You will lose the data if youformat the pendrive, so save your data soimewhere else beforeformating it. This is valid for Kingston datatravelers with twoformated areas, one open and the other secured too.
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Perhaps you misunderstood the advertising. This is a real computer. It has a hard drive, and can save things to the hard drive just like any other computer. The only difference is that the operating system is Ubuntu/Linux rather than Windows or Mac. But you can move files to/from this computer to Windows or Mac via USB or other means. The web storage, in the advertisement is a personal "cloud" thing. You can upload stuff there, just in case you do something to your computer that requires reinstallation of the OS. You could also retrieve cloud files from elsewhere (although I don't know if the other computer has to be an Ubuntu type). I've never used the web storage.
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It takes up to a 30 Gig mini-SD card. Also will run a full-size USB flash drive. If you use either of those the OS will mount those drives for you but before you take them out you need to unmount them from the Settings > Memory area. This is an old Linux legacy.
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It is a regular USB (2?) ; it is by definition universal, and made for MACs (I just have a personal pref. for MAC key-boards). If this does not fit your computer, you need a new computer.
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It's because those are 1000MB Gigabytes instead of the 1024MB Gibibytes Windows use to measure the size, Those can also be called Gigabytes, hence the confusion. If you plug it on a mac it will say it's 30GB, but the file sizes will also seem bigger so no additional data can be stored
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I use it with no problems on Windows 8 machines, Mac's and older windows versions. Was the drive setup for use on a Mac by any chance?
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I am an idiot- specifically, how do you format this for a Mac? Also, is it fine to do this, or should I buy a specific hard drive already formated or designed for Macs?
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How did you format it and what type is it? The cheap ones will not work, I found there is actually a big difference in the quality of USB sticks and its no surprise the cheap ones don't even get recognized by MMI....
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On my computers (Macbook Air and iMac) this loads as a drive and I can backup or do anything else I can do regularly with any other type of drive with this unit, up to its capacity of 128GB. Note, though, that my experience is under MacOSX and not Windows. My sense is that it should work the same way with Windows but i have not tested it. Good luck.
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The device comes with a FAT32 partition, which is quite limited but very compatible.I repartitioned my USB Flash drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and so files on it can be as large as the device.
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The drive work fine in a Mac. I had to buy an adapter, because the one that ships with it won't fit the Mac case. I bought it from Other World Computing.
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This external hard drive contains a SATA-2 5400 rpm hard drive with a 8mb buffer.I would tell you the model number but it gets deleted when I post it.I would tell you how I know for sure but that gets deleted also.So in other words you just need to use your noodle and seek out the info you need; there are ways but this will probably get deleted to so what's the point in all of this?PS I Bought this thing and I have hands on experience with it!
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Yes, it realy is 500GB. It is this capacity because it uses that extra space for additional wear leveling. This is known as over provisioning. The extra space needed for over provisioning on this drive is necessary because it is triple level cell technology. Because of this, the flash actually has less endurance than the generation before it. With the proper wear leveling though, this is compensated for, and the drive is designed to last for quite some time. If you are a heavy user (meaning professional video editing, or any other use case where you are writing more than 10GB a day everyday), you should get the pro line anyway, as that is still multi level cell, and has greater endurance. But if you do that kind of heavy work, you should probably be getting an enterprise grade drive anyway with single level cell technology. So yes, this drive is genuine and it is fantastic. It is actually close to one of the fastest drives on the market, and the only that I know of that is optimized for larger capacities. Most other brands (particularly LSISandforce drives) are designed to be fastest at ~256GB, so if you want a large drive that doesn't suffer because of it's size, this is it. Edit: BTW, there are some non-insightful posts below claiming this is because it is what you get after formatting. Know that formatting will always use some of the storage and you will end up with slightly less. But in this case, it will be actually lower than the 500GB as 500GB is what it would be raw, not after formatting. My 250GB Sansung 840 came out to about 233GB. This is also partially because, for whatever reason, the solid state world measures in Gibibytes (GiB) or 1000MiB, while the rest of the storage/computer world (except for the silly apple world) measures in Gigabytes(GB) of 1024MB.
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I can confirm 16 gb works. I have not tried larger, as it becomes a moot point. This unit does not support search/browse by folder from flash drive. So if you plan on using more than a couple of folders (which I would presume you would for a drive that size) move on and get a better unit. I very much regret choosing this one.