Outgoing ports aren't the issue. At least one client involved in the transfer must have a port available that does not filter out incoming traffic. That means you can still download and upload even without a forwarded point, but you can only upload and download from people with forwarded ports. If you have port forwarding, you can download and upload with everybody.
mammut
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I think it will, in part, depend on how software handles it. I'm guessing quite a few people just look at the health summary in software like Crystal Disk Info. If this makes the summary go from green to yellow, it's going to fool a lot of people.
People who actually look at the individual stats and warnings will probably just shrug it off. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've gotten used drives that had over 3 years logged before I even put them in service, and that didn't bother me.
Probably this discussion explains it better than I did.