So I basically knew what I was getting for the most part. It was in great aesthetic condition and everything inside looked complete. However, I started having start up issues and this progressed to the same issue popping up randomly. The disc would go to 100% usage and then nothing else would work until it stopped. I contacted the seller, (quick response to my request) and told them I thought the SSD was failing. They asked me to run some diagnostics and if it showed a fault, they would replace it. nice. Well HP diagnostics didn't show any problem, so that was that. Done. Anyway this issue never got any better, just worse. I tried reinstalling windows, I increased RAM to 32GB. Nothing helped. Convinced it was the SSD I replaced the cheap Chinese Kingfast SSD with the American Kingston SSD and the issue completely disappeared. Now, boot up takes seconds instead of minutes. I read somewhere that these knock-off hard drives are missing some cache storage or something. Anyway buyer beware.