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Thanks for responding, just to clarify, I'm not concerned about whether it is classed as "new" or not but whether the CrystalDisk report means that it is likely to fail. I read a post elsewhere that CrystalDisk isn't designed for SSDs but I've tried all my other USB sticks and none of them...

Hello, I bought a new SanDisk Extreme 256GB USB stick from ebay and checked it with CrystalDisk and it shows the Health Status as "100% bad", focussing on two bits: E8 Spare Blocks Remaining is Current = 0 with Worst = 100 E6 Percent of Total Write/Erase Count” Current = 100 and Worst = 100...