EBay item: Is this SSD about to die or should I keep it?

nexus787 · Jul 31, 2014

I bought this 80GB used Intel SSDSA2M080G2GN for $42 shipping included.

I would like to know if I should keep it, it says it has already written 31.69TB

Intel guarantees them to work until 35TB so the drive is very close to that point.

BUT...

Health is at 100% and have more than half of life remaining.

Should I try to swap/return it or should I keep it considering it has hold well with such history?

Attached picture available with SMART log.

USAFRet · Jul 31, 2014

At most, I'd use that for a secondary drive.

Your 80GB:
24717 hours
31.69GB writes
Estimated life remaining - ~60%

My 120GB (boot drive):
16554 hours (22 months of 24/7 operation)
5TB total writes

Your drive has been used hard.

Alec Mowat · Jul 31, 2014

I can't recommend ever buying a used SSD. Not really a good idea.

nexus787 · Jul 31, 2014

Yea I'm a total noob about ssd lol, I just wanted to blow the bucks I had left on my paypal, not sure if I should return it or keep it due to the fact that it still have half it's life with relative low reallocated sectors considering how beat up those stats are, I heard they hold 10,000 cycles not sure if the type I bought is the one on this article:
http://techreport.com/review/15433/intel-x25-m-solid-state-drive

But if that is true then mine has only made about 437 cycles.

I suspect this was used for a server because of it strong usage and the company I bought it from is about networking solutions, what do you guys think?

USAFRet · Jul 31, 2014

nexus787 :

If you can, return it.

Dereck47 · Jul 31, 2014

FYI, the Intel X25-M is a 1st generation SSD; it's one of the first consumer-grade SSDs and was released for sale in 2008. It's also a SATA 2 (3Gb/s) SSD.

nexus787 · Jul 31, 2014

I'm aware is old and first generation, that is why I'm surprised of it's performance and no problems so far, would you guys recommend which SSD should I get if I decided to return this one? Since I know most likely there is none for $40 bucks in a new condition, what can I get for $80? This is not an item I really need, is just an experiment as a laptop Win 8 OS sdd while secondary hdd is on caddy replacing the cd drive.

USAFRet · Jul 31, 2014

When you want an SSD, a Samsung 120GB.
Old, used, and slow is false ecomony.

Dereck47 · Jul 31, 2014

Here's a new current gen 120GB SATA 3 (6Gb/s) SSD that you can get for $75. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148693

Newegg also excepts PayPal as payment.

Alec Mowat · Aug 1, 2014

nexus787 :

I picked up two Kingston drives and put them in a RAID0 on my motherboard.
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1229_1088&item_id=055640
I get about 250 write, up to 550MB/s read.

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