Re: Detecting the life of a USB flash drive?

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On 6/1/2026 7:30 am, Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 1/5/2026 10:05 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>
>> Say I placed a brand new USB drive at home. Someone sneaked into my home and replaced it with an old one. Can I detect this? :)
>>
> 
> Drive serial number ?
> 
>     wmic diskdrive get serialnumber
> 
> Probably easiest to check a hard drive label,
> to see if the printout matches any field
> on the drive label.


That only tells the serial number, but not the date it's manufactured. 
Old and new are just dates. ;)

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