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Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-05-10 13:05 (UTC+0200):
jdd@dodin.org wrote:
it's probably a client return. But you should better have a new one, for sure :-(
Very probably.
I often buy such product, but sold as second hand and with lower price
But in this case the vendor lied.
Actually, it reported neither new, used, refurb nor anything else about its age.
It is possible to find out how much used is that disk. Run this:
Telcontar:~ # smartctl -A /dev/sde | grep -i hours 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2986 Telcontar:~ #
Mine has 2986 hours of use.
Or display it all, there are interesting parameters: ... 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 4356147880 ... On another SSD (actually an m2) I get others:
230 Life_Curve_Status 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 100 231 SSD_Life_Left 0x0000 097 097 011 Old_age Offline - 34359738369 233 SandForce_Internal 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 5674 234 SandForce_Internal 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 2452 241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 2452 242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 774 244 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 099 099 010 Old_age Offline - 2687006
Rather less informative mine: OS version : Linux 4.12.14 env TERM=linux root on gb250 Number of disks : 2 Disk 2 L-Geo from: GPT table, likely 1-MiB cylinders (GPT guard present in MBR) Disk 2 forcing : cylinders from 31130 to 244199 Disk 2 forcing : heads from 255 to 64 Disk 2 forcing : sectors from 63 to 32 L-Geo Disk 2 Cyl : 244199 H: 64 S:32 Bps:512 Size:0x1DCF3800 = 238.5 GiB S-Geo Disk 2 Cyl : 31130 H:255 S:63 Bps:512 Size:0x1DCEF91A = 238.5 GiB BIOS Int13 limit : 1024, I13X support needed beyond : 1024.0 MiB MBR crc 8bff08f2 : 0x88bad147 = Bootcode not present. Start of sector is empty! DFSee Linux 14.12: Executing: fdisk -r- -w- Command timestamp : Thursday 2018-05-10 00:21:34 +---+--+--+-----------------+--------+--------+-----------+----------------------------------------+-----------+ |ID |ux|Dr|Type, description|Format |Related |VolumeLabel|OS2-LVM/BM / GPT / Crypt / additional in| Size MiB | +--</dev/sdb GPT disk 2>--------+--------+-----------<KINGSTON RBU-SNS>-----------------------+-----------+ |10 | | |Fsp + GPT hdr/pta|-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|Size 0x7de sectors | 1.0| |10 | 1| |EFI System (ESP)|FAT32 |MSDOS5.0|SYSTEM |EFI system partition | 300.0| |11 | 2| |MS Reserved (MSR)| |Windows | |Microsoft reserved partition | 128.0| |12 | 3| |Windows BasicData|NTFS |Win NT |Windows |Basic data partition | 242869.0| |13 | 4| |Windows Recovery |NTFS |Win NT |WinRE tools|Basic data partition | 900.0| |15 | | |Fsp + GPT pta/hdr|-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|Size 0x28f sectors | 0.320| # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 906907CA-E46B-4C6D-B8FA-CDC680E4F5B4 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 616447 614400 300M EFI System /dev/sdb2 616448 878591 262144 128M Microsoft reserved /dev/sdb3 878592 498274303 497395712 237.2G Microsoft basic data /dev/sdb4 498274304 500117503 1843200 900M Windows recovery environment # df /dev/sdb3 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb3 248697852 50800036 197897816 21% /mnt # smartctl -A /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.12.14-lp150.8-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: 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 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 60 168 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 170 Unknown_Attribute 0x0003 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 295 173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0023 070 049 020 Pre-fail Always - 30 (Min/Max 24/51) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0002 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 218 Unknown_Attribute 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 231 Temperature_Celsius 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 100 233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x000b 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 38 240 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 81 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 407 244 Unknown_Attribute 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 245 Unknown_Attribute 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 246 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 23200 # file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: data # fsck /dev/sdb1 fsck from util-linux 2.31.1 e2fsck 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) e2fsck: need terminal for interactive repairs # fsck.vfat /dev/sdb1 Logical sector size is zero. fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) A look in a binary editor at sdb1 shows nothing but nulls. Based upon smartctl it looks like the device may simply have been briefly tested, while the 21% in use on sdb3 suggests otherwise. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org