Is this safe?

[owencrispy]

• I am a student on a low-budget, I built my pc using second hand parts mainly found from eBay or used from my old pc (I bought the gigabyte k3, i5 6500 and 16GB corsair ram from eBay or CEX). The only new things were the the s340 and 212 evo.

so recently I found a Sandisk mx400 128gb m.w sad for £38 (£40 if posted to my house). My question is; how safe is it to buy a second hand m.2? It will be for some games and possibly some files to help remove the stress from my mechanical drive. Also, is 128gb for £38 a good deal? Thank you in advance!

[BubblyCharizard]

as long as you wipe the data, there should be no issue

[Jurrunio]

Ask the seller to get you a S.M.A.R.T. screenshot first. SSDs have much shorter read/write count limit than HDDs, so make sure you don't buy one that is used a lot.

[owencrispy]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Ask the seller to get you a S.M.A.R.T. screenshot first. SSDs have much shorter read/write count limit than HDDs, so make sure you don't buy one that is used a lot.

The shop won't do that, they're a decent brand but I know they won't send me individual information about the product. It will just be something they take out of one store and post to my house, is this program free? Could I benchmark it myself and then send it back if I'm unhappy?

[Jurrunio]

Just now, owencrispy said:

The shop won't do that, they're a decent brand but I know they won't send me individual information about the product. It will just be something they take out of one store and post to my house, is this program free? Could I benchmark it myself and then send it back if I'm unhappy?

If the SSD they sell is second hand, then unless it is unused, or else not doing so shows that they are not trustworthy.

[BubblyCharizard]

not necessarily, many stores could have too much stock to individually test each one, 

[owencrispy]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

If the SSD they sell is second hand, then unless it is unused, or else not doing so shows that they are not trustworthy.

But if I buy online, they will literally just list the ssd to me, so they won't know who or what. They will just be sending it to a customer, but as far as I'm aware they do test in store beforehand 

[BubblyCharizard]

2 minutes ago, owencrispy said:

But if I buy online, they will literally just list the ssd to me, so they won't know who or what. They will just be sending it to a customer, but as far as I'm aware they do test in store beforehand 

most used sellers do test

 

 

[ArduinoBen]

42 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

SSDs have much shorter read/write count limit than HDDs

Technically true.  However this is a BIG misconception and SSDs will almost always last longer than hard drives.  And they will run out of read and writes way after they get replaced, etc......

[ArduinoBen]

It would be a good idea to ask for a test.  However you might want to be a little careful if they refuse to give you a test.

 

 

Anyways, it will be completely safe, just don't forget to wipe the data off of it first.  Also, just btw, M.2 SSDs aren't more dangerous than SATA SSDs or anything else.