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I'm looking into ssds and I can get a 120gb one for £45 brand new or a 256gb one used, I'll be installing windows as soon as I get it again so contents doesn't matter but is it safe

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Avoid buying used storage.

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HDDs are sortof fine to buy used if you can get a crystaldisk image of it and its not too over used but SSDs i would definatly not buy used unless i needed to for some chalange or something

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Back in my day I got a 240GB for £50 (on sale)...

Anyway, I wouldn't buy second hand, and would suggest saving a bit more for 240GB

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3 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

Back in my day I got a 240GB for £50 (on sale)...

Anyway, I wouldn't buy second hand, and would suggest saving a bit more for 240GB

I only play csgo and rocket league so it's 12gb for both them games, any other games I'd just use a hdd

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I would only buy an used SSD if you know and trust the person. My SSD I bought used off my brother. It was a Samsung SSD so I could see how much data he transferred so far. And knowing him I knew it wouldn't be physically damaged in anyway.

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If the owner will let you test it out before and you can see what the Total Terabytes Written (some drives don't have the field at all, don't buy them)   and it's a good brand, it might be worth it.

Refurbished SSD's should be considered untouchable.  Manufacturers reset the SMART data so you could be buying a drive that has one foot in the grave.

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