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    Crucial M4 Factory Reconditioned

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Laptopz, Feb 24, 2015.

  1. Laptopz

    Laptopz Notebook Consultant

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    I just purchased a Crucial M4 from Crucial that is "factory reconditioned" from them and was wondering if having a high factory bad block count was bad? I attached the Crystal Disk Info for it.

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    Laptopz, Feb 24, 2015
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  2. baii

    baii Sone

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    refurb Msata M4 bought 1.5 years ago, used as external drive, not dead yet. :)
     

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  3. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    At the very least, I would contact Crucial and ask them stating that the drive is alright in writing (and what the acceptable range should be).

    Myself? I would not use a drive in this condition on my only platform (mobile or desktop).
     
    tilleroftheearth, Feb 24, 2015
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  4. superparamagnetic

    superparamagnetic Notebook Consultant

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    Your SSD has 259 bad blocks. At 512KiB per block, this means 130 MiB of flash is bad. The 128GB SSDs come with about 8.79 GiB of spare blocks, so you've lost 1.5% of your spare capacity.

    Seems ok to me, but yeah you should ask Crucial to be sure.
     
    superparamagnetic, Mar 14, 2015
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