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 can’t see the SMART data. May be something in there that gives me more information. Seems odd to me that an SSD would just go bad out of the blue - but if you’ve not turned on the drive or laptop in a while, that could be why. But honestly, it may just be fine after a full drive write - couldn’t hurt to try zeroing it w/ dd.
SSDs don’t like being left unpowered for more than a few months. All flash storage, actually. If you take out an SSD and stick it on a shelf for a few years, it’s unlikely that it’ll lose data - but it’s absolutely technically possible, and many companies won’t cover such data losses by warranty after a specified period of time.