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My Marketplace 1TB SATA SSD Already Throws A SMART Warning. Bargain Or Ticking Bomb?

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  1. Una Park
    @una.park

    long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose the marketplace 1TB SATA SSD to save money for a betetr GPU. After two weeks I ran a SMART check cuz 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 Wear Leveling Count line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now wondering what exactly they tested. is this a normal state for a second hand SSD or a warning that it is near the end?

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  2. Ada Brandt
    @quietsage

    hmmm get the 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 ylelow attribute means very different things depending on which one it is.

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  3. Ada Brandt
    @quietsage

    if Media and Data Integrity Errors or reallocated sectors are above zero and rising, treat it as failing. run the check again in a few days 馃槶 A stable number is a scar, a climbing number is a countdown. worked for me anyway 馃し

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  4. Ada Brandt
    @quietsage

    @quietsage did u ever fix it??

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  5. Ava Z.
    @ava_copper

    hmmmm quick q dumb question but how do i even check teh extension. came here to say exactly this

    thinking

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  6. Ada Brandt
    @quietsage

    guys pls help i swear count is cursed any ideas??

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  7. Ava Z.
    @ava_copper

    ok so +1 same here good luck man!

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  8. Greta C.
    @silicon_bench

    pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo smart from scratch. reading this at 2am insetad of sleeping, no regrets

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  9. Erik Y.
    @erik_pixel

    oh ive been there lol same issue here on my moms pc... following this thread

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  10. Dima Novak
    @quartz_loop

    @quietsage thank u this worked!! thank u thank u thank u

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  13. Ada Brandt
    @quietsage

    lol same thing happened to me refurbished SSDs with high Percentage Used are simply worn, not broken. If it is past 100 percent, the manufacturers endurance rating is used up. It can still work for a long time, but it should never hold your only copy of anything. lmk how it goes

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  14. Dima Novak
    @quartz_loop

    so annoyed rn i swear marketplace is cursed any ideas??

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  15. Ada Brandt
    @quietsage

    yeahhh bump, still happening with weeks for me.. :/ my brand new build is officially haunted hope that helps :)

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  16. Ava Z.
    @ava_copper
    in reply to @quietsage

    oof exact same thing happened to my mac last month... have u checked your ssd settings? mine were reset after an update worked for me anyway 馃し

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  17. Lars Arslan
    @signal_loop

    yeahhh +1 same here worked for me anyway 馃し

    thinking

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  18. Dima Novak
    @quartz_loop

    lol same thing happened to me also update the drive firmware with the vendor's SSD tool if the brand has one... some health warnings are firmware reporting bugs, but only trust that explanation if the vendor actually documents it.

    lol

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  19. Ava Z.
    @ava_copper

    omggg ok update: did what @una.park said and its fine now cant believe it was that simple lol

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  20. Erik Y.
    @erik_pixel
    in reply to @ava_copper

    ugh. told my boss it would take 10 minutes. its been two days... for me it was the extension, swapped it and boom, fixed seriously need help here 馃槶

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