I saw a good offer for a used ssd, and I wonder if the SMART data can be spoofed.

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    You didn’t understand what I am asking. The ad has a smart report, that’s not my question though and they agreed for me to check the SMART info myself

    But can SMART DATA be hacked, spoofed, manipulated?

    Is SMART data reliable, is protected?

    If it was tampered then how would I know? Will Samsung magician software detect it?

    I can’t seem to find an answer online

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      Oh, sry, thought it was sufficiently answered by others. I am sure it can be reset. Just not sure how easy that is. I vaguely remember seeing such software at HDD oracle.

      Figuring out spoofed data might not be so easy though (I doubt happy-happy-joy-joy-software like Samsung magician can). Perhaps doing one complete write can show some deficiencies (my experience is that it suffers with higher TBW).

      PS: Sry for slightly off topic but what kind of SSD are you talking about? Some bad ass data center or just regular gamer WORM?

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        4tb samsung evo, I changed my mind.

        I will wait until I have enough for a new ssd.

        I am really shocked that there is no tech youtuber, forum, or news website that talked about an incident where scammer spoofed the tbw.

        Thanks for the reply

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          shocked that there is no tech youtuber, forum, or news website

          Yes, quite sad (but perhaps it’s just a common enough thing yet). Those “tech news” people are consistently jerks and hype any news speeds (PCIe 3/4/5) over TBW and reliability.

          Pardon me for being so blunt but marketing whores would be the correct term ;)

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            I also just found out that I can’t backup android phones, it is so easy with iphones.

            That saddens me