04e8:61b5 — M3 Portable Hard Drive 2TB
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 04e8
- Product ID
- 61b5
- Combined
- 04e8:61b5
- Decimal
- 1256:25013
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a M3 Portable Hard Drive 2TB manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 04e8 is registered to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 61b5 is the product ID that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04e8:61b5 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd M3 Portable Hard Drive 2TB.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04e8:61b5 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd M3 Portable Hard Drive 2TB
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04e8:61b5, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04e8:61b5. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04e8, idProduct=61b5.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_04E8&PID_61B5 USB\VID_04E8&PID_61B5&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04E8&PID_61B5"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
M3 Portable Hard Drive 2TB:
Product ID: 0x61b5
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 61b5 M3 Portable Hard Drive 2TB