Is this disk Ok for instalation?

Installing Zorin OS
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Hi!, I am using linux mint and I want to install zorin core. I wonder if my disk is ok to do it. I have an SDD , GPT partitioned like this:

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In order to get it right I followed a tutorial here:Tutorial: Install in Legacy mode to GPT Partitions

Cristal disk application says this SDD has 93% life. I bought this SDD 2 years ago.
And SMART Application withing Linux Mint says it is ok but has 1 bad sector (I wonder how could I get this sector bad?) Please notice ID 199 and 202 . How can I avoid more broken sectors lateley?

smart test marzo 2022
smart test marzo 20221282×670 114 KB

my specs are these:


  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: BANGHO product: MOV v: MODEL_EQUIP serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: BANGHO model: MOV v: D02A serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends 
  v: 1.01.15RPCD1 date: 07/11/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.9 Wh condition: 46.9/48.8 Wh (96%) 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2450M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  Speed: 958 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2518 2: 1766 
  3: 1931 4: 2191 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics 
  driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1360x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.8 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-100-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver: rtl8192ce 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: JMicron JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: jme 
  IF: enp3s0f0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 362.83 GiB (77.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT500MX500SSD1 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 27.44 GiB used: 17.03 GiB (62.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /home size: 430.39 GiB used: 345.81 GiB (80.3%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 213 Uptime: 15h 33m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 3.31 GiB (43.1%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

Is my disk fine ? Thank you in advanced.

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Your disk has more than tens of thousands of sectors. One Bad Sector is still quite good. If you get hundreds of bad sectors: Worry.

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is it normal that this SDD shows 93% useful life after 2 years ?

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I would say so, yes. It used to be an SSD was expected to last about 4 years, due to how solid state handles Re-Writes.
A seven percent Loss over 2 years would imply, that if that rate were linear, then SSD should still last at least 6 more years.

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Crucial are good. It depends how many times you rewrite SSD.

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Sometimes i writte it a lot , sometimes I download tv shows (complete seasons) and the delete them. But it isn't often. I also work a lot with libre office writer.

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I bought two crucial and they will working many years,
i bought some long time ago chinesse ssd and working over 5 years. Then don't worry. Installation system i have on ssd but some videos and games i have on hdd. This is most properly installation. Besides ssd some are cheaper from HDD what have many Terabajt and mostly used for servers.

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thank you.I love lots of things about zorin specially about lite version. and i think i will give it a fresh install as soon as possible.

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