What do you do with damaged drives?

My old laptop died so I took the SSD from it in hope to use it as external drive. I wanted to just overwrite it with dd for security but I decided to go with f3 as that would also give me the opportunity to test the drive. Sadly, bad results came back


<span style="color:#323232;">Data OK: 111.75 GB (234352247 sectors)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Data LOST: 14.13 MB (28937 sectors)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       Corrupted: 14.11 MB (28905 sectors)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Slightly changed: 0.00 Byte (0 sectors)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Overwritten: 16.00 KB (32 sectors)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Average reading speed: 250.69 MB/s
</span>

:::spoiler S.M.A.R.T. data if you’re curious


<span style="color:#323232;">ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0013   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       359
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       995
</span><span style="color:#323232;">161 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       236
</span><span style="color:#323232;">163 Unknown_Attribute       0x0003   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       96
</span><span style="color:#323232;">165 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       84
</span><span style="color:#323232;">166 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">167 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       56
</span><span style="color:#323232;">172 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">173 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       339
</span><span style="color:#323232;">194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0023   059   059   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       41 (Min/Max 33/41)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1847
</span><span style="color:#323232;">242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2424
</span>

Yeah, barely used. Just the LBAs written/read doesn’t seem to make sense. :::

Any better ideas than paperweight?
I have tested it when it was new, it had no errors.

splendoruranium,

I’m a bit baffled that this hasn’t popped up yet: Sell them on eBay.
Mark them as broken goods/scrap and re-iterate that fact very clearly in the product description. Broken drives often sell for up to 1/3 of the value of a working one, no scamming needed.

I cannot tell you why that is, but my theory is that a lot of folk buy up broken drives in private sales in the hopes that the “broken”-diagnosis is just user error and that the drive is actually fine. Knowing my users that might actually be true in many cases.

Edit: I didn’t quite catch that you were not able to successfully overwrite your data. I guess that’s a point against selling it. Always encrypt your drives, that way you can always sell them when they break!

vicfic,
@vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Aah that’s a pretty good idea. But I’m guessing it’s not the case for SSD’s?

splendoruranium,

It absolutely is, at least from my observations!

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