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seagate 600 pro circa 2014, use it?

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I have a seagate 600 pro 240gb mlc ssd that was purchased around 2014 it has been used as a boot drive in a few different systems over the years.
crystal disk info says it has 54% life left and 0 reallocated sectors.
I am setting up another refurb system and thinking about using it as a boot drive again.
The system is sata only without an adapter card.
That computer will not be used for a lot of super critical stuff but it would be a pain to reinstall and get everything set up just right again.
Throw it in there or replace it?

Thank you!
 
Do a little searching online with that model and see if people have had it suddenly stop working. At 9 years in, either the firmware bugs leading to sudden death have been triggered by others already, or they're pretty rare. If Seagate SSD firmware engineers work with their traditional drive firmware engineers, they'll know to be careful about runtime values overflowing, cause Seagate had one of those.

54% life left and no reallocated sectors says there's a lot of life left to me. Might be time to setup a backup system while you're thinking about it. My desktops backup daily, and if stuff happens, it's easy to restore. But I did want to justify my storage array ;)
 
I not finding a lot online about failures with that drive.
I am going to go ahead and use it.
I was leaning that way but wanted a second opinion to see if I was missing something.
Thank you for the help!!!
 
I have a Seagate 600 480GB SSD in the oldest system I have. Been in there since new and have never had a problem with it. Life is still at 100%.
 
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