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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ComeToMyFuckingDeli on 2023-09-26 01:36:11+00:00.
I bought a cheap external 4 TB HDD from eBay. It was originally formatted in ExFat, but it didn't show up on Mac, only on Windows. That was the first yellow flag. The second yellow flag was that it was called "SSD" when it was advertised as an HDD.
I wanted to use it on Mac. So in Windows, I erased and reformatted it using Windows Partition Manager to NTFS, and then its name automatically changed to "SSD SSD USB." Now back on Mac, it shows up in Disk Utility. But when I try to reformat it for Mac (APFS), I get the following error:
"Unable to write to the last block of the device.：(-69760)"
I've heard of the USB scam in which the computer is tricked into thinking that there is more space than there actually is. Do you think this is a USB masquerading as an HDD?