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Do I have a bad SSD? Bad block count at 257
I have Adata su650 480GB SSD which is generally working fine. Recent check of SMART values using CrystalDiskInfo reports 257 bad block count. Now I need to know a few things with respect to this ...
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solid state disk some random files corrupted; how to prevent in simple terms
Please see What happens in a raid (5) when one drive or more gets a bad sector?. I have a few .jpg files (and much more serious data). Some of the .jpg files become corrupted. I can tell because ...
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What Runtime_Bad_Block mean in SMART Attributes? How critical is it?
My SSD has the following SMART Attribute Pre-fail.
What does that mean and how critical is it?
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 098 001 010 Pre-fail Always In_the_past 60
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Do bad clusters on modern (as of 2020) SSD indicate hardware failure?
I've got a Samsung 970 Evo 2TB SSD that has been working perfectly for a year and a half, under a mostly-read load.
Recently, while updating Windows to the 2004 release, the OS got stuck in the ...
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How to test SSDs or NVMe for badblocks'?
With the traditional spinning disks diagnostics is rather easy. If you suspect a drive to be faulty, you can check the SMART values, run a SMART extended test and a badblocks -wsv test. If all three ...
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Usefulness of badblock on modern storage media
If I understand it correctly, badblocks just writes somewhat elaborate patterns to the supplied block device and reads it back. With modern hard drives doing extensive caching, sometimes have included ...
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Is my SSD starting to fail?
I have Plextor 256 gb M2P which is only 3 years old.
I tried to make a backup image of my system drive with reflect (macrium) and windows backup but it both fails each time with an IO error.
Altough ...
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Should I test that an SSD is working properly the same way I test an HDD?
I habitually test new or repurposed HDDs with badblocks -w before using them, just as a precaution.
Now that I'm starting to use SSDs, I'm not sure if the same test is appropriate.
Is there a more ...
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How to fix bad blocks on SSD
I've got 14 bad sectors on my Kingston HyperX SSD. Although any benchmark shows that SMART for this drive is good or 100% on CrystalDiskInfo. Is there any way to erase them? I've tried Vitoria with ...
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Bad sectors vs spare/reserve sectors and how the OS and disk interpret them
From what I understand, there are two fundamental ways sectors are marked bad:
OS performs IO read/write instruction. The sector is replaced with a spare and marked bad.
Disk's low-level instructions ...
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Kingston SSD with several bad blocks and zero reallocated sectors
My Windows 8 installation was freezing randomly and I started to suspect my SSD drive.
After running HD Tune, I got a lot of damaged blocks, but S.M.A.R.T. shows zero reallocated sectors.
I thought ...
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How to mark bad-sectors on SSD drive?
My SSD drive has started to have some bad sectors. My plan is to to copy it to another drive using dd, but it seems like a few bad sectors are making this impossible.
How do I mark bad sectors on ...
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