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Killed an NVMe drive running a long SMART test

Hello folks,
Not looking for any support on this one - just thought it might be an interesting share.
I just killed a Sabrent Q4 2TiB NVMe by running a SMART test -- I'm not joking. It also happened to be my primary Windows machine's OS drive, so this will be fun to rebuild on a spare.

Was doing some performance testing and wanted to see how much the drive had been written to - so as any sane Windows user does I used scoop to install smartmontools. I checked the drive, smartctl -a C...

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