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Contabo sold me a "new" VPS with 300TB written, 14% wear

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reykjavik_doc

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container skeptic

#1

Ran smartctl -a on my "brand new" Contabo VPS and the NVMe reports 295TB written, 14TB read. 14% wear. Þetta er ekki nýtt.

They sold me "new hardware" at checkout. Actually docker is just lying to you, but this is worse—this is fraud with a systemd unit file attached.

Attached smartctl output for the unbelievers. Þeir ættu að skammast sín.

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Percentage used endurance indicator: 14%
Data Units Written: 575,221,456 [294 TB]
Data Units Read: 27,341,112 [14 TB]
JO

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#2

Lol

Nice

LichunLars

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#3 
$ ping contabo.com -c 10
PING contabo.com (198.51.100.7) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 198.51.100.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=34.2 ms
64 bytes from 198.51.100.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=33.8 ms
64 bytes from 198.51.100.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=34.1 ms

--- contabo.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9012ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 33.812/34.052/34.210/0.123 ms

Route via KnownHost adds 12ms, route via RackNerd adds 8ms. Contabo route is fine. Disk is not.

Checked my OVHcloud box: 847TB written. 31% wear. "new" in january.

1ms or I don't want it
uma

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99.99% or bust

#4

My Vultr "fresh provision" from march: 412TB written, 19% wear. Status page shows all green.

Alert fatigue is real when your monitoring can't catch "refurbished drive sold as new."

Opened ticket. They offered $8 credit. Trust damaged beyond the SLA.

436 days. reboot is surrender.

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