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900GB USB Drive
Yep, it’s not a typo. You got it right: nine hundred Giga-Bytes. Check this photo if you don’t believe me.
USB 2.0 with 900GB of Storage
It’s the largest USB drive I ever saw, and I think it’ll be quite a few more years before I see another one. Now, the real story:
A friend of mine went to China recently, and came back of course with some goodies and sweet stuff. But one thing he brought back really intrigued me. It was a little piece of technology. You can see it in this picture: a SONY, VAIO-branded USB drive with a mind-boggling capacity of 900GB, and it not only says that on the outside. If you plug it into your computer, it will really show 900GB of free space.
SONY-branded USB 2.0 with 900GB capacity
Now, he hasn’t been able to actually store this much on it so far. After storing a few GBs, he reported, if you add more data, the old files you just put on it start disappearing. When I tried the drive myself, I didn’t get as far even. When I plugged it into my desktop, Explorer just crashed, and eventually had to restart the box to restabilize the system. On my laptop I got similar results (both run Win XP Pro), even though it did not crash until I tried to create a folder on it (copying simply failed with a message like “Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected”). In short, it’s certainly not very portable if at all usable 
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900GB of Free Space
Until we figure out how to store 900GB on this thumb-sized device, we should give it to the Chinese ingenuity. Hats down, really! They not only produced a cool-looking USB drive that boasts a 900GB on its titanium-finished cover, they went the whole way and modified the hardware so that it makes you computer think that it does have this much space on it (see screen shot above). It even allows you to keep copying stuff on it (on some computers, apparently), even if you exceed whatever real capacity it has.
SONY VAIO is the Brand of the 900GB USB Drive
The funny thing about this story is how much it cost: my friend bought it on the Pearl Market in Beiging for some bargaining and $7 (50 yuan).
12 Comments on “900GB USB Drive”
i myself bought 10 Sony vaio 900gb when i saw it @ first i thought it was a fake so i ask the lady to show me the property and yep it read 874gb free space i got screwed big time.
There is an ‘illegal’ program that allows you to change the amount of space the drive thinks it has, so you can make a drive of 128mb show up as 3GB (etc, etc).
Haha.. 7$.. I got it for 5.
But i got two
So i got screwed more
Dammmmm
They even let you try it before you buy it!! pufff!!
Real shit, if u try format it in NTFS it will then shows that almost all space is used, and u won’t get anything on it, this is a fake.
How To Re Format This USB With Fat32 !!! ?
I re format the usb with W98 system perfectly
i have the same one
i got it as a gift
now i have installed windos 7 on it its pretty fast
Could you explain the details how you installed this and how is it working, please? I have one gifted by a friend of mine.
900GB fat32…
try formatting with ntfs and see what happens.
FAT32 is limited, or something.
Who cares, can buy a 2tb drive
You can use this utility to check the actual amount of space available:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spacefiller/
Word of advise don’t buy from China and avoid Sony. Both make shit products. Even if 900GB was possible, it would be retarded and slow.