Thing about SSD's

[W00DI]

I'm buying an SSD from this guy and in the description it says: When tested, the drive encountered bad sectors and would only register 8 mb in Windows and 0 mb in the BIOS. SHould I be worried?

 

[Thunder82]

Best thread of the day. Fail. Epic Fail.

 

[phillipsteak]

/facepalm

 

[Andrew Henry]

I'm buying an SSD from this guy and in the description it says: When tested, the drive encountered bad sectors and would only register 8 mb in Windows and 0 mb in the BIOS. SHould I be worried?

Seriously?

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

You...should slow down on the thread making brosaurus....

 

[DoFoT9]

come on guys be nice

SSDs can get bad sectors?


if its true, dont buy it..

 

[noodle654]

I wouldn't buy it...that doesn't sound right. And bad sectors? Sounds like a HDD to me. Find a different one.

 

[W00DI]

Best thread of the day. Fail. Epic Fail.

I havn't bought it yet I wanted to know what it meant.

 

[jjahshik32]

Dont buy it.

 

[PolySciSurfer]

All the people up top making fun of the OP, ought to type in the some real information for all of us. I have no clue what bad sectors or any of that is. So fill us in. This is useful information for all people interested in SSDs.

 

[DoFoT9]

All the people up top making fun of the OP, ought to type in the some real information for all of us. I have no clue what bad sectors or any of that is. So fill us in. This is useful information for all people interested in SSDs.

i agree.

a bad sector is a block of storage (normally block are in KB size) that cannot be read/written to by the storage device. e.g. it is damaged/bad/broken etc. SSDs and HDDs are able to "map" these bad sectors and not save data to them, if enough sectors become damaged it can significantly reduce the amount of storage that you have.

thats a very basic understanding of it, need anything more indepth lol?

having 8mb recognised (most likely from an 80GB SSD) is pathetic.

 

[yg17]

Unless you're putting it in an Apple IIe, don't buy it.

 

[Dan73]

I say buy it, it will make a nice paper weight.

Could the controller on it be screwed up? Cause 8mb out of even a small 30 something GB drive?

 

[shambo]

Ffs

 

[DoFoT9]

I say buy it, it will make a nice paper weight.

haha serious? rocks are free... how much is it?

 

[DoFoT9]

I say buy it, it will make a nice paper weight.

Could the controller on it be screwed up? Cause 8mb out of even a small 30 something GB drive?

you wont be able to tell until you get it.

do you even have a controller to change it with?

the chances of it being the controller are very low.

 

[moral-hazard]

does this "solid state drive" with the "bad sectors" also have "circular platters that spin around" ?

sounds to me like if you buy from this guy you'll end up getting an old laptop hard drive with an "intel X25-m" label stuck on it

 

[W00DI]

haha serious? rocks are free... how much is it?

UNO Dollar

 

[DoFoT9]

UNO Dollar

May aswell then! Nobodies loss.