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

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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