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Me providing an example of a repair is not me claiming it is the only method of repair.

If someone can make a degraded product useful again, it’s neither your place nor the manufacturers place to tell advanced users/repairers not to -- to dictate what is appropriate.

Except, again, you aren’t making it useful again, you’re attempting to bypass a fail safe put in place by engineers. You aren’t repairing anything to make useful again, you aren’t fixing any part of the SSD. You’re merely attempting to bypass a “lockout”. You aren’t arguing to repair the drive; you’re arguing to keep using after this point (which is fine, even if I disagree with it).

That’s because you’re not making the distinction between reading and writing, and understanding that it’s writing that fails. The fitness to write to a NAND declines gradually with each cycle. Every transistor is different. A transistor might last 11,943 cycle…

The first paragraph quoted (and the article as whole) cover reads, different between different drives (including different specs for enterprise vs consumer) and how the values are drawn. 10k is for intel 50nm MLC NAND specifically. Other values are presented in the article. It isn’t arbitrary as you’ve attempted to hand wave it as. I suggest you read it in its entirety. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated the software standard is, the oxide on the drive will eventually wear down and is a physical problem.

I am being artificially blocked from returning the product into useful service

Except it isn’t useful service. I would have a hard time buying that a a pre-fail drive, even second hand, is useful for service. I get what you’re going for/saying but again it doesn’t pass for right to repair imo. It’s risking data loss to wring an extra 12 months (or likely, less) from a dying drive. For every 1 person like you that its an annoyance for it saves multitudes more that are less savvy pointlessly risking data loss.

“Repair” does not necessarily mean returning to a factory state.

I didn’t claim as such and replacing a faulty or damaged module wouldn’t return it to factory condition. I wouldn’t consider “hacking” a drive to continue using it when you shouldn’t a repair. As far as I’m aware it’s to comply with JEDEC standards.

There's now ambiguity between bits which, if this cell were allowed to remain active in an SSD, would mean that when you go to read a file on your drive there's a chance that you won't actually get the data you're requesting. A good SSD should mark these bits bad at this point.

There's a JEDEC spec that defines what should happen to the NAND once its cells get to this point. For consumer applications, the NAND should remain in a read-only state that can guarantee data availability for 12 months at 30C with the drive powered off.

I just don’t see how using a drive into the period where it’s likely to fail and lose data, against specification, is a good idea. Let alone a right to repair issue.

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4902/intel-ssd-710-200gb-review/2

Fuck haggling. I set a lower price because I want something in good condition gone and would rather it be used than go to landfill. Set a price and that’s it. People want to haggle on marketplaces because they either have nothing better to do or resell. Don’t be a party to it imo. Makes it much easier because you ignore tyre kickers who obviously don’t read as well.

Having grown up around similar dipshits, I can definitely understand. It happens.

You two didn’t even have to read the article it’s in the OP about Palestinian Christians. Your reactions are also to criticise Christians instead of “checks out for Israel’s regime”? They’re also Christians in Israel. Assuming everyone in a religion is fundamentalist/extremist would sure make you fit in with the Israeli government ironically enough.

I don’t think this is right to repair tbh. You can’t repair the SSD in this state? You’re not going to go in and repair any of the NAND modules. What you refer to as “nannying” is to stop what an overwhelming majority of end users would do. Which click “ignore” after not reading the message informing them the SSD is pre-failure and then losing all their data when the drive fails. A good majority of users aren’t anywhere near as tech savvy enough to understand what’s going on. The drive effectively being unusable prompts them to replace it while they still have the ability to remove data off of it.

Yeah I noticed that seemingly artistic liberty as well. Still an odd position for Bernie to take if this article is to be believed.

Hell yeah, love me some DZ Deathrays, need to go see them at some point.

I love buying my raw meat products that require constant temperature control from the back of a van. Hey, the USDA checked it out at some point and said ”yep that sure is edible meat probably” so what could go wrong.

Nice, I’ll have to check out that site. As much as I wouldn’t want people fucking with airbnbs. Especially not in way the videos comments mention, no sir.

A class with an oddly high amount of women have all been made aware that you’ve pulled out a sketch pad in English class.

Man that is some bad subtitling. TL;DW? Is it just a worse version of lock picking lawyer? I guess it isn’t a great idea to secure your property with a $40 Bunnings lock if so. Still surprising that one of those common locks can be defeated by a metal shim. I lost the key to a small lockbox I bought from Bunnings and “picked” the lock with the thin end of a zip tie. Criminals must love Bunnings based security.