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I picked up this SSD on eBay (SanDisk X400) in June to eventually replace a 8 year old laptop due to age and battery wear issues. However, I have since setup the laptop and I did a wear check, especially on a used SSD… Potentially not good. Disk reinitialization (done due to prior red flags noticed early in testing):
Write (post reinitialize):
Read (post reinitialize):
This SSD is a 75TBW drive, and it went from 90>88% due to the checks I did on it. Yes, the wear wasn’t 100% necessary but due to the severe amount of wear I noticed doing the initial write check, I wanted to go over it closely. Should I be concerned? PS: The laptop doesn’t require SATA II - it supports SATA III. SMART data:
Until you can get better info on the color coding it will be hard to tell what its telling us. The depth of the green color must have some reason. Is the darker it is the more used?
The fact you altered the color to a light green I think points that way so you’ve basically cleared the controllers table! Thats not good, as you don’t want the assume the worn block is clean. So the bottom line here is what is this tool doing? Is it really telling you anything useful? Or just zeroing the table so it looks nice!
If you doubt it, don’t use it. Nothing beats peace of mind. Show us S.M.A.R.T data instead of this block diagram, it isn’t particularly useful.
If that doesn’t work, try an OWC ssd they lasthttps://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3D7…
