> > I put the disk in a USB3 box and bought a new one. I know that SSD > > disks loose memory with time. I wonder how this works and I thought > > that maybe if I reformat the disk, I will be able to use it again. > > I don't recall if you mentioned the model of SSD you have. I wonder if it has SMART capability. > > What is the output of > > sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdX > > where X is the device identifier I put the disk in a USB3.1 box. It says: smartctl 7.0 2019-03-31 r4903 [x86_64-linux-5.2.13-200.fc30.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/sda: USB to NVMe bridge [please try '-d sntjmicron' and report result to: smartmontools-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary The other new one gives much more information. I should probably try when plugged directly to the mother card. F _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
