Is it fine to buy a 2nd hand NVME m.2 with 95% health?

[GabNerf]

I found this on the facebook marketplace a samsung 512gb m.2 nvme PM981 which is cheap but the seller doesn't know when he purchased it. but according to him its 95% on its health is it worth to buy it if its decently cheap? if i compare it to buying a new one is should be around less of half price.

[porina]

That's an OEM model equivalent of whatever was around at the time. Don't just look at the same model but also what else you could buy new today.

 

95% health should be ok. You could request the full SMART data to see if there's anything else of possible concern.

[GabNerf]

1 hour ago, porina said:

That's an OEM model equivalent of whatever was around at the time. Don't just look at the same model but also what else you could buy new today.

 

95% health should be ok. You could request the full SMART data to see if there's anything else of possible concern.

What should i look out for in the smart thingy like the hard disk sentinel right?

[Tan3l6]

I got my 1TB NVMe (Adata S70) down to 95% in about 2 years of daily usage. Was able to sell it for 60€. I think it was a fair deal.

But for 512GB it would take perhaps 1 year(?) to get to 95%. So about 19 years to go, again perhaps.

[porina]

1 hour ago, GabNerf said:

What should i look out for in the smart thingy like the hard disk sentinel right?

Depends on what that specific drive actually reports. Look for things like uncorrectable errors, bad/reallocated sectors.

 

One time I cooked a SSD as it was under a 24/7 running GPU. That threw up bad sectors all over the place, although that was recoverable by wiping it. Bad sectors were still there but mapped out by the drive.