December 5, 20241 yr My oldest SSD seems to have finally given up the ghost. It passes a short SMART test, but the Extended test always fails in the first 10%. With read errors, if I have interpreted the SMART report correctly (attached). It was mounted via unassigned devices and had no important data on it, so I'm not worried about data loss. Just want to know if it's definitely bound for the scrap heap or if anything can be done to give it a second lease of life? I think it's over 10 years old, and it has served me well so not really holding my breath here... tower-smart-20241205-1118.zip
December 5, 20241 yr If the extended test fails it should be replaced, you can try a full device write, to see if it reallocates the bad sectors.
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