Be VERY cautious about buying the larger-capacity USB drives, say 128
   GB to 1 TB drives.   Unless you buy a few name-brands, like PNY,
   Sandisk, Samsung, it looks like the majority of the devices are fake.
   What they do is to re-program the devices (which were probably weak or
   defective to begin with) to make it look like they have far more
   capacity than they really do.  If you try to write to them, at some
   point they will simply over-write the much-smaller capacity that they
   really have, which might be 4 or 16 Gigabytes
   There are free programs which check these devices to see if they
   actually have the capacity they claim.
               Jim Bell

   On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 10:05:45 PM PDT, grarpamp
   <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
   > It's just under a gigabyte, admittedly not that much space in an
   > era in which 32GB thumb drives can be had for under US$5
   32GB USB < $4.00
   128GB USB = $10.00
   256GB USB = $20.00
   1TB SSD = $90.00
   10TB RUST = $275.00 on sale now for $170.00
   16TB RUST = $510.00
   Build your own array this holiday season...