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Re:Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us by jclulow on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:10AM (#18656266)
One potential cause is poorly constructed drive firmware which fails to account for a minor failure of some kind and crashes. If that unaccounted minor failure is persistent, the firmware may crash constantly and then you'd be unable to access even theoretically good parts of the drive.

Firmware -- undebuggable, unobservable, unfixable software, jammed into your devices -- is the enemy.

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Re:Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us by jug on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:19AM (#18656335)
Sounds like there is a business opportunist here for open firmware or even one running on the CPU especially for the enterprise? But maybe they won’t bother either despite valuable data and uptime, and just rather throw more redundant SSD’s at the problem.
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Re:Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us by someguydave on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:33PM (#18659625)
You would need to convince the very small number of Flash memory fabricators to release their detailed specifications and known product weaknesses.
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