Is it safe to buy used ssd if it's from trusted brand like samsung and western digital?
>>100164147It's tricky because a lot of people use them for RAM extensively (unknowingly). See macfags crying en masse over dead soldered SSDs.
>>100164147I've never bought a used SSD that either wasn't new or was at near full healthThe "worst" SSD I've bought was a used 2TB sandisk
>>100164408Can you tamper with the smart data btw? I'm concerned that someone intentionally edit smart data of a worn out drive to lower the tbw or power on cycle..
>>100166035Now I'm curious, too, I hadn't thought of that. I tend to buy only new as I figure I run the risk of picking up some heavily-used and/or abused drive I'll want to swap out soon.
>>100164408cute benchmark
>>100166035Generally I avoid Chinese sellers when it comes to SSDs.Other than that tho, I'm not really concerned, the people who do smart edit usually do a pretty sloppy job and is not something that is practical to do at a wide scale of SSDs.The actual amount of drives that get so heavily used is quite small anyway. I generally buy enterprise drives and even if they have a 100TB+ of writes, it's mearly percentage points of actual wear.
>>100164147That's a man.
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