Re:Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us
by ryanmercer on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:56AM
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>What could cause an entire SSD to die at once?
A component failing? Electrical components fail. Sometimes it's a manufacturing defect, sometimes a design defect, sometimes something under or over-volted and it was enough to cause damage to any given component.
Could be an IC, could be a capacitor, could be a poorly laid trace. A poorly shielded RF source could even damage any number of components.
I mean, in theory a single high charge particle from that rare cosmic ray that reaches the surface of earth running full-steam-ahead through an IC could cause just the right amount of damage to make it fail although this would be an incredibly improbable scenario.
Same goes for HDDs, televisions, your clock radio, whatever.
A component failing? Electrical components fail. Sometimes it's a manufacturing defect, sometimes a design defect, sometimes something under or over-volted and it was enough to cause damage to any given component.
Could be an IC, could be a capacitor, could be a poorly laid trace. A poorly shielded RF source could even damage any number of components.
I mean, in theory a single high charge particle from that rare cosmic ray that reaches the surface of earth running full-steam-ahead through an IC could cause just the right amount of damage to make it fail although this would be an incredibly improbable scenario.
Same goes for HDDs, televisions, your clock radio, whatever.