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How Worried Should I Be About Percentage Used On A A Month Old Purchase??

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  1. Mila Schmidt
    @mila.schmidt64

    Confession: I chose the renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to.

    Disk health

    Disk health
S.M.A.R.T. status: BAD

Reallocated sectors count: 1,872 (threshold exceeded)
Back up your data and replace the disk as soon as possible.

    The Percentage Used line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now wondering what exactly they tested xD Is this a normal state for a second hand SSD or a warning that it is near the end?

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  2. Pia
    @pia_vector

    refurbished SSDs with high Percentage Used are simply worn, not broken, if it is past 100 percent, teh manufacturers endurance rating is used up. it can still work for a long time, but it should never hold your only copy of anything. hope that helps :)

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  3. Lars Wolfe
    @larsw244

    exact same thing happened to my gaming rig last month. wait does this also apply to ssd? good luck man!

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  4. Tariq L.
    @tariql583
    in reply to @larsw244

    oh ive been there lol get teh full picture with smartctl -a /dev/nvme0 (smartmontools works on Windows too) and look at Percentage Used, Available Spare, Media and Data Integrity Errors and Data Units Written. One yellow attribute means very different things depending on which one it is.

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  7. Lars Wolfe
    @larsw244

    @tariql583 what did u end up doing in the end

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  8. Amara Schmidt
    @amara_vector

    hmm idk everyone keeps saying this but nobody posts proof

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  9. Nadia Castillo
    @nadiac361

    @milan_voxel what did u end up doing in the end ??

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  10. Dima Jansen
    @cobalt_rider-3i9

    pro tip: write down what u chagne. i didnt and had to redo smart from scratch. spent a whole week on refurbished and im still not done

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  12. Tess Olsen
    @tolsen

    this 🤦 sooo much this. reading this at 2am instead of sleeping, no regrets lmk how it goes

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  13. Aiden Dalton
    @aiden_night

    oof for me it was teh cable, swapped it and boom, fixed worked for me anyway 🤷

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  14. Tariq L.
    @tariql583

    hmmm bump.. ;) still happening with month for me... have u checked your refurbished settings?? mine were reset after an update worked for me anyway 🤷

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  15. Lars Wolfe
    @larsw244
    in reply to @tariql583

    If Media and Data Integrity Errors or reallocated sectors are above zero and rsiing, treat it as failing. Run the check again in a few days. A stable number is a scar, a climbing number is a countdown.

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  16. Fenna Nakamura
    @fnakamura

    been there man honestly just reset teh settings and save yourself the pain good luck man!

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  17. Pia
    @pia_vector

    been there man have u checked your 512gb settings? mine were reset after an update fingers crossed 🤞

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  18. Tess Olsen
    @tolsen

    lol this thread is gold. which version are u on?

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  20. Pia
    @pia_vector

    agreed

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