4971:ce18 — (re)Drive
SimpleTech
- Vendor ID
- 4971
- Product ID
- ce18
- Combined
- 4971:ce18
- Decimal
- 18801:52760
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a (re)Drive manufactured by SimpleTech. The vendor ID 4971 is registered to SimpleTech with the USB Implementers Forum, and ce18 is the product ID that SimpleTech assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 4971:ce18 SimpleTech (re)Drive.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 4971:ce18 SimpleTech (re)Drive
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 4971:ce18, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 4971:ce18. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=4971, idProduct=ce18.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_4971&PID_CE18 USB\VID_4971&PID_CE18&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_4971&PID_CE18"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
(re)Drive:
Product ID: 0xce18
Vendor ID: 0x4971 (SimpleTech)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:
4971 SimpleTech ce18 (re)Drive