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I am looking for a used SSD on ebay because my old laptop doesn't need a new one. The most listed SSD by far is the Evo 850.

 

I am currently interested in one particular Evo 850 from an ebay retailer. He claims that he opened the SSD just for testing purposes, which sounds fishy to me but I can pay with PayPal, so i feel safe. The retailer did not show the amount of written TB on his pictures, purposely?

 

Is there a way for me to see the amount of written TB on this SSD after put it in my laptop? Does the Samsung Magician software do that?

 

It is this one here (german language): http://www.ebay.de/itm/250GB-Samsung-SSD-850-EVO-250-GB-V-NAND-Handler-/172643438706?hash=item283259d072:g:BcEAAOSwtZJY~xyS

 

A new one is 12% more expensive.

 

 

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Honestly I feel SSDs are the worse thing you could possible shop used, I would take a brand new SanDisk SSD PLUS G26 any day over a sketchy used and already even opened Evo 850

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magician can you show you how your ssd health is, crystal disk info is another program to do that.

 

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Samsung Magician can show you how much TB has been written to the SSD, assuming nothing funny happened to the SSD.

 

You can always ask the seller to take a picture of the SSD's stats in Samsung Magician. It also includes the serial number, so you can verify it's the SSD in question (it's on the blue divider line to the left of "Genuine"):

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If the seller refuses or stalls about this information, go look for someone else.

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When buying off Ebay, you should just try to trust the rating system, too.
I'd spend 12% more for piece of mind, myself.

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9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Samsung Magician can show you how much TB has been written to the SSD, assuming nothing funny happened to the SSD.

 

You can always ask the seller to take a picture of the SSD's stats in Samsung Magician. It also includes the serial number, so you can verify it's the SSD in question (it's on the blue divider line to the left of "Genuine"):

Samsung-Magician-PCIe.png

 

If the seller refuses or stalls about this information, go look for someone else.

If you are determined to go used, then do this ^^^ 

 

Though I'd buy it new, just to forestall any problems with fishy eBay sellers.

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