On 2018-05-10 23:29, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-05-10 20:52 (UTC+0200):
He did not caught his own fingers.
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Oh. Spanish expression, then, I thought it would be more universal. Getting the fingers of oneself caught on the door hinge. Figuratively, it means the vendor was careful with his words, not claiming new, not saying it wasn't either.
It looks like an attempted Windows installation or migration from hard disk to ssd.
Or brief test, begun as if it were to be a full clone.
Later it says that 81 LBA blocks were written, does not match if that usage is actual usage with no holes.
I have idea since it was an OEM pull, it was being given a short test to confirm not dead before shipping.
Ah.
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11 <========== 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 60 <========== 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 81 <=========== 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 407 ... It may be a partially completed cloning process. ... The 81 LBA sectors actually written is a small figure, I wonder why. ... If you intend to keep and use that disk, do a full erase (not actually filling all with zeros, that's too much wear), and then partition and format yourself. Otherwise, just return it because the disk was used and he did not say so. Or ask for a lower price.
First reply from vendor after my "misleading ad" report: "We sincerely apologize that you received a brand-new OEM pull when you were expecting a retail SSD. You may certainly return it for a full refund (we will provide a return label) or you may keep the SSD and we will provide a partial refund, as our way of apologizing for all the trouble." Second reply: "We will be happy to honor the 3 year warranty: if the SSD proves defective within 3 years of purchase, just reach out to us via email or phone, and we will be happy to replace it."
I accepted a 21% refund. 11 POH were low enough, probably at least half my own letting the PC just sit while not finding a man page answer to sdb1 mounting and then running this thread, not first thinking about the possibility of incomplete cloning, and investigating with a disk editor.
:-)
One significant thing stopping me from proceeding to partition it is figuring out if it should have any swap allocated. Data is going on rust. I didn't really plan on getting it in the first place, never had an M.2 before, and neither paid any attention to discussions on the subject.
Having swap on sata-SSD is bliss. Gave new life to my computer, as I can not add RAM. Having it on M.2 would be bliss squared :-)
The other delay actually installing anything is figuring out whether the M.2 ought to be HD0 instead of HD1 before configuring a RAID for data. I really don't like blingy busy GUI BIOS setup. :-(
Unless you have two such disks, don't. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)