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I'm actually super in favor of these weird parts made with salvaged components in China.
You can also find laptop CPUs transformed into desktop platforms with a motherboard included.
The sellers are also surprisingly open about it - they explain the limitations and hacky patches to make them work.
..but if they're scavenged from old Apple products, who knows how much wear the flash has? It might have a drastically shortened lifetime; that would be very bad for an SSD.
interface ICs, etc. don't wear in this way, but Flash memory.. I'd never want used flash for my SSD.
Meh, good enough for a games drive, Google Drive cache and seedbox.
Beats having Apple products in a landfill because they're firmware locked and nobody bothered with the password.
Fair enough, so long as one knows what one is getting. If it's for mostly read-only storage I guess it could be fine, as your use cases suggest.