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Heads Up Orico 4 TB SSD
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Jeff Gaines
2025-01-25 21:06:17 UTC
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Had an Orico 4 TB SSD delivered yesterday. Fitted it this afternoon and
formatted it. Bit odd, my other 4 TB SSDs are 3.73 TB formatted, this was
3. 64 TB. Anyway at 1.4 TB it balked and stopped accepting files. Windows
"repaired" it but it did the same again.

Being collected for refund Monday.May be a one off, will probably never
know.
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jon
2025-01-26 07:52:52 UTC
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Had an Orico 4 TB SSD delivered yesterday. Fitted it this afternoon and
formatted it. Bit odd, my other 4 TB SSDs are 3.73 TB formatted, this
was 3. 64 TB. Anyway at 1.4 TB it balked and stopped accepting files.
Windows "repaired" it but it did the same again.
Being collected for refund Monday.May be a one off, will probably never
know.
I just plug my SSDs and M2s into the USB ports.
Andy Burns
2025-01-26 09:06:11 UTC
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my other 4 TB SSDs are 3.73 TB formatted,
this was 3. 64 TB.
3.73 / 3.64 = 1.024, so some are quoted in Terabytes, others are in
Tebibytes
Post by Jeff Gaines
Anyway at 1.4 TB it balked and stopped accepting files.
Windows "repaired" it but it did the same again.
If it had happened at 2.0TB rather than 1.4TB, it would point to an MBR
vs GPT issue, it could be a motherboard firmware issue, or the drive has
faked its size ...
The Natural Philosopher
2025-01-26 09:11:56 UTC
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Post by Jeff Gaines
Had an Orico 4 TB SSD delivered yesterday. Fitted it this afternoon and
formatted it. Bit odd, my other 4 TB SSDs are 3.73 TB formatted, this
was 3. 64 TB. Anyway at 1.4 TB it balked and stopped accepting files.
Windows "repaired" it but it did the same again.
Being collected for refund Monday.May be a one off, will probably never
know.
Isn' t it 'baulked'? In the UK?

However nice word to use...

Brings a vision of the drive throwing up its hooves with a big whinny
and saying 'I've had enough!'

And that's why I only buy drives from brands I have heard of that
actually have a reputation to lose
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Jeff Gaines
2025-01-26 10:39:21 UTC
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Post by Jeff Gaines
Had an Orico 4 TB SSD delivered yesterday. Fitted it this afternoon and
formatted it. Bit odd, my other 4 TB SSDs are 3.73 TB formatted, this was
3. 64 TB. Anyway at 1.4 TB it balked and stopped accepting files. Windows
"repaired" it but it did the same again.
Being collected for refund Monday.May be a one off, will probably never
know.
Isn' t it 'baulked'? In the UK?
However nice word to use...
Brings a vision of the drive throwing up its hooves with a big whinny and
saying 'I've had enough!'
And that's why I only buy drives from brands I have heard of that actually
have a reputation to lose
Funny you should say that. I used "baulked" but my spell checker wanted
"balked".

And it's done it again it baulked at baulked", I will add it to the
dictionary.

I did some research and Orico do produce a lot of memory kit, perhaps I
was unlucky. Anyway it is in a cardboard envelope with a stylised arrow on
the front which in this case means return to sender!
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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The Natural Philosopher
2025-01-26 12:44:05 UTC
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Had an Orico 4 TB SSD delivered yesterday. Fitted it this afternoon
and formatted it. Bit odd, my other 4 TB SSDs are 3.73 TB formatted,
this  was 3. 64 TB. Anyway at 1.4 TB it balked and stopped accepting
files.  Windows "repaired" it but it did the same again.
Being collected for refund Monday.May be a one off, will probably
never know.
Isn' t it 'baulked'? In the UK?
However nice word to use...
Brings a vision of the drive throwing up its hooves with a big whinny
and saying 'I've had enough!'
And that's why I only buy drives from brands I have heard of that
actually have a reputation to lose
Funny you should say that. I used "baulked" but my spell checker wanted
"balked".
That's US spelling. Atre you using the right dictionary.
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And it's done it again it baulked at baulked", I will add it to the
dictionary.
I did some research and Orico do produce a lot of memory kit, perhaps I
was unlucky. Anyway it is in a cardboard envelope with a stylised arrow
on the front which in this case means return to sender!
Lol!

I have to say I nearly always buy Kingston direct from Kingston.
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that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

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