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.

  • @echo64
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    61 year ago

    I’ve used badblocks in the past to get an extra few years out of a failing drive in the past. But this was in the 64gb being a large drive days, and it only delayed problems