My old laptop died so I took the SSD from it in hope to use it as external drive. I wanted to just overwrite it with dd for security but I decided to go with f3 as that would also give me the opportunity to test the drive. Sadly, bad results came back
Data OK: 111.75 GB (234352247 sectors)
Data LOST: 14.13 MB (28937 sectors)
Corrupted: 14.11 MB (28905 sectors)
Slightly changed: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors)
Overwritten: 16.00 KB (32 sectors)
Average reading speed: 250.69 MB/s
S.M.A.R.T. data if you're curious
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 359
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 995
161 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 236
163 Unknown_Attribute 0x0003 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 96
165 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 84
166 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
167 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 56
172 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 339
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0023 059 059 000 Pre-fail Always - 41 (Min/Max 33/41)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1847
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2424
Yeah, barely used. Just the LBAs written/read doesn’t seem to make sense.
Any better ideas than paperweight?
I have tested it when it was new, it had no errors.
I’m a bit baffled that this hasn’t popped up yet: Sell them on eBay.
Mark them as broken goods/scrap and re-iterate that fact very clearly in the product description. Broken drives often sell for up to 1/3 of the value of a working one, no scamming needed.
I cannot tell you why that is, but my theory is that a lot of folk buy up broken drives in private sales in the hopes that the “broken”-diagnosis is just user error and that the drive is actually fine. Knowing my users that might actually be true in many cases.
Edit: I didn’t quite catch that you were not able to successfully overwrite your data. I guess that’s a point against selling it. Always encrypt your drives, that way you can always sell them when they break!
Aah that’s a pretty good idea. But I’m guessing it’s not the case for SSD’s?
It absolutely is, at least from my observations!