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Ebay NVMe - Are these nearly dead or hardly used? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/bigTractor on 2024-01-22 15:59:16+00:00.

I purchased a few Samsung PM983 M.2 NVMe SSDs from Ebay. Once I received them, I ran the Samsung DC Toolkit against them and received the following output.

sudo ./samsung_dc_tool2.1 --disk 2:c -NG --lifetime

================================================================================================

Samsung DC Toolkit Version 2.1.L.Q.0

================================================================================================

Estimated Life Time: 1 %

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[Success] Get Log Page Feature completed successfully

sudo ./samsung_dc_tool2.1 --disk 3:c -NG --lifetime

================================================================================================

Samsung DC Toolkit Version 2.1.L.Q.0

================================================================================================

Estimated Life Time: 1 %

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Success] Get Log Page Feature completed successfully

sudo ./samsung_dc_tool2.1 --disk 4:c -NG --lifetime

================================================================================================

Samsung DC Toolkit Version 2.1.L.Q.0

================================================================================================

Estimated Life Time: 1 %

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Success] Get Log Page Feature completed successfully

udo ./samsung_dc_tool2.1 --disk 5:c -NG --lifetime

================================================================================================

Samsung DC Toolkit Version 2.1.L.Q.0

================================================================================================

Estimated Life Time: 1 %

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Success] Get Log Page Feature completed successfully

Are these drives 1% used? Or have 1% remaining?

I am leaning towards 1% remaining based the word usage of "Estimated Life Time:" and the example picture from the DCToolkit manual (page 45, Manual Link) show a screenshot that says 99%... Which I am not sure how to interpret, but I would assume that they would show the output from a nearly new SSD and not a nearly dead SSD...

Any reason to keep these and use them vs contacting the seller and attempting to get my money back?

-BT

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