Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 20:19:18 Greenwich Mean Time Wol wrote:
> On 25/02/2025 15:04, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > That said, there is nothing "wrong" with buying M.2 drives just to use
> > them exclusively USB3 enclosures.  I just think you're paying a big
> > premium for something that isn't really much better than a thumb
> > drive.
> 
> Until you get a TV like ours, that DEMANDS a disk drive to hang off its
> USB. I tried sticking a USB3 stick in, and it refused. Hang a bare
> laptop HDD off it, and it's quite happy.
> 
> So I'm hoping a M2 in an enclosure will keep it happy ...
> 
> (Of course, every other TV I've ever had is perfectly happen with just a
> USB stick!)
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol

Some 'smart' TVs won't use a USB drive unless and until they've formatted it 
first.  I've attached a 3" drive in a USB 3.0 docking station and it worked 
fine *after* it was formatted.  Then it wouldn't unmount it, even after I had 
shutdown the TV.  I can't recall what fs format it had used.

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