Here's an odd one for y'all...My Mac Mini (Mid-2010) had #Debian13 & #LMDE installed & was showing bad sectors on it's SSD.

[geekymalcolm@ioc.exchange]

Here's an odd one for y'all...My Mac Mini (Mid-2010) had #Debian13 & #LMDE installed & was showing bad sectors on it's SSD. I ended up installing #Ubuntu Server on it & now this:

[capergrrl@mstdn.ca]

@geekymalcolm That's a headscratcher.

[geekymalcolm@ioc.exchange]

@capergrrl So @Toxic_Flange said to me:

SSDs /NVMEs are actually bigger than they report to account for bad or failed “sectors”. also there’s a reason why you can over allocate stuff (i think that’s the term) to account for wear and tear of some sectors.

So a bad sector is recognized as marked as bad and remapped to another sector within its hardware.

[capergrrl@mstdn.ca]

@geekymalcolm @Toxic_Flange Ya I think I saw that earlier. I just can't easily look at the chat while I work.