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You're lucky... mine died after the original 1 year warranty (a few days over, it detected as 10MB drive or some such), I replaced it before they had a fix for the issue... that said, every drive I've had since has been very solid, mostly using Samsung drives these days.



That has nothing to do with write endurance; it's a known bug in the firmware.


I know that it's (now) a known bug... unfortunately it wasn't known when it happened to me, and I'd long since replaced it when I found out.


The capacity error is fixable by using hdparm to secure erase the drive which as a side effect restores it’s original capacity.

You still lose all your data though :(




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