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I know it would be better to move Linux Mint to the internal hard drive but I'm keeping it on the external hard drive just because I don't know how stable the SSD is. On top of the fact that I've heard that SSD are less stable than mechanical drives, I don't know if the hard drive was replaced when it was refurbished and if it wasn't, I don't know how much it was used. I also want to prioritize my slower external hard drives so that way I'm not potentially stuck using these older hard drive, or even my much slower USB storage devices, several years from now.
Also, I ran a benchmark test on the SSD and it's nowhere near as fast as I though it would be. The read speed is only around 520 MB/s and the Write speed is around 470 MB/s. This isn't much faster than my current external hard drive which has somewhere around 300 MB/s for both, it's been a while since I last tested it.
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I don't know what most of those numbers mean but most of them are 0 and the overall assessment says "Disk is OK", so I guess it wasn't used much in the past two years. "program-fail-count-total" has a value of 94669670143499 but I'm not sure if that's actually bad or not because "program-fail-count" is 0.
Also, as I stated before, I'm still going to prioritize my slower hard drives so I'm not stuck with them if the SSD fails before I can buy a faster drive.