Tiny update on the USB drive with less-than-advertised capacity: I have now two replies in my mailbox, one from the manufacturer Intenso, one from the local Eichamt (Weights and measures office).

The manufacturer states, after a bit of bullshit concerning my “professional” use of this “home/SOHO” device (they know exactly that have replaced the excellent chipset with cheap crap, and now a week of use at the office is misuse and voids the warranty, degrades performance, blabla):

Diese fehlende Kapazität ist für ein Speichermedium (im Bereich Consumer Electronics) marktüblich.

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