18a5:0216 — External Hard Drive
Verbatim, Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 18a5
- Product ID
- 0216
- Combined
- 18a5:0216
- Decimal
- 6309:534
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a External Hard Drive manufactured by Verbatim, Ltd. The vendor ID 18a5 is registered to Verbatim, Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0216 is the product ID that Verbatim, Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 18a5:0216 Verbatim, Ltd External Hard Drive.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 18a5:0216 Verbatim, Ltd External Hard Drive
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 18a5:0216, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 18a5:0216. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=18a5, idProduct=0216.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_18A5&PID_0216 USB\VID_18A5&PID_0216&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_18A5&PID_0216"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
External Hard Drive:
Product ID: 0x0216
Vendor ID: 0x18a5 (Verbatim, 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.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
18a5 Verbatim, Ltd 0216 External Hard Drive