04e8:60b3 — M2 Portable Hard Drive
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 04e8
- Product ID
- 60b3
- Combined
- 04e8:60b3
- Decimal
- 1256:24755
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a M2 Portable Hard Drive manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 04e8 is registered to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 60b3 is the product ID that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04e8:60b3 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd M2 Portable Hard Drive.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04e8:60b3 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd M2 Portable Hard Drive
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04e8:60b3, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04e8:60b3. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04e8, idProduct=60b3.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_04E8&PID_60B3 USB\VID_04E8&PID_60B3&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04E8&PID_60B3"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
M2 Portable Hard Drive:
Product ID: 0x60b3
Vendor ID: 0x04e8 (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd official support →
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
04e8 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 60b3 M2 Portable Hard Drive