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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:26:39 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   So I just found a file on my SSD that I can't read fully anymore. Worried. Got the stats. I don't really know much about SSDs. Does this mean this one might begin failing on me?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:31:44 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Miah Johnson

     @miah Fuck. It's not even that old.

   • Miah Johnson (miah@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:31:45 UTC Miah Johnson

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     @dosnostalgic I'd lean towards, yes.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:33:56 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Miah Johnson

     @miah It's my in-use Windows drive. 😭

   • Miah Johnson (miah@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:33:57 UTC Miah Johnson

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     @dosnostalgic Make sure you have backups of everything and ride it until it dies.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:55:28 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Dr. Gravitas

     @DrGravitas Looking into this right now, and it appears that no, I'm not fine and that GOOD thing means absolutely nothing. Apparently a Samsung EVO 870 thing.

   • Dr. Gravitas (drgravitas@red.fox.yt)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:55:29 UTC Dr. Gravitas

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     @dosnostalgic

     Nah, it's a scale from 100 to 0, so you're fine. That 99% Good up at the top is usually the best overall indicator.

     Files that can't be read or fully read can also be caused by poorly written programs that don't edit or save them right or a number of other things.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:02:16 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Dr. Gravitas

     @DrGravitas This https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-beware-certain-batches-prone-to-failure.291504/ along with a whole bunch of stuff on the internet that instantly pops up the second you look up SAMSUNG SSD FAILURE

   • Dr. Gravitas (drgravitas@red.fox.yt)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:02:17 UTC Dr. Gravitas

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     @dosnostalgic

     My OCZ from 2012 has been used heavy and it's only at 95%. It also uses the "Good" rating; it's not exclusive to Samsung's thing.

     What are you looking at that's saying your not fine?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:52:27 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Dr. Gravitas

     @DrGravitas I don't think I'm alright

   • Dr. Gravitas (drgravitas@red.fox.yt)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:52:28 UTC Dr. Gravitas

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     @dosnostalgic

     I have the same model for the old system's 3rd drive (but I don't remember its values) and my understanding of SMART leads me to think you're alright. But, I can't speak to problems with individual model's lifetimes.

     It's always a good idea to have backups even if it's healthy, though.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 20:32:24 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Btw, did you know that if you have a file that can't be read, and you ask Windows 10 to compress it, it'll successfully create a zip archive with only the readable part of the file, and NOT PUT UP A SINGLE ERROR MESSAGE?! Now you know.

   • Grum999 :verified: (grum999@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 20:57:12 UTC Grum999 :verified:

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     @dosnostalgic not sure if it's a good thing (you can retrieve part of data) or a bad thing (no error message? does it mean that you can have a lot of corrupted zip files without being alerted? :ablobcatknitsweats: )

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 20:57:12 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Grum999 :verified:

     @grum999 It's a bad thing. And yes, that's what that means.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 22:17:05 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     After a full scan. Ouch.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 22:26:15 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     If you'd like to help out a fellow nerd, and contribute to my new SSD fund: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic

     I've been in in a paycheck-to-playcheck situation for the past couple of years, so even something as trivial as getting new storage can be a bit difficult for me.

   • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping (stooovie@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 23:58:16 UTC Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

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     @dosnostalgic SSDs are usually heavily overprovisioned, meaning their capacity is larger than stated, and bad "sectors" are just decommissioned and replaced by some from the reserve.

     My offense here would actually be theCrystal tool: why put a huge "99% healthy" of the stats show otherwise?

     Also, I have NEVER In 25 years with PCs got a SMART warning before disk death, despite some 10 drives actually dying. I did, however get warnings and the drives soldiered on for years. 🤷♂️

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 23:58:16 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping

     @stooovie I get it, but I'm finding files with unreadable bits. Surely that's not a great sign.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:30:02 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Thank you all for your generosity! 🙏 Going in to get a replacement.
     (Machine goes into boot loop when attempting CHKDSK, and all proprietary tools error out. So I guess I'm lucky I noticed this when I did.)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 20:53:58 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Aaand my old one failed before I could get data off it. I'm a genius. 😅