Formatter Silicon Power V3700 Ps2251zipl Info

That is normal. The low-level formatter detected excessive bad blocks and downshifted capacity to maintain stability. You can force full capacity using PRETEST=3, but that will likely lead to future data loss.

When the PS2251ZIPL controller corrupts its FTL (Flash Translation Layer), the drive behaves abnormally: formatter silicon power v3700 ps2251zipl

A normal high-level formatter only writes to existing partitions. It cannot rebuild the controller’s firmware or reset bad block tables. That requires a Phison low-level formatter. That is normal