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Re:The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle by rasz on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:10AM (#23320242)
>Failure of flash is quite predictable and can be managed through the use of over provisioning and advanced error correction codes.

Do you have anything to back that up? because in real world even Intel server drives simply vanish from the system without prior warning, or promised read-only failure modes.

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Re:The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle by bcrl on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:58PM (#23344022)
You are 100% correct that there is a gap between how firmware should behave versus how it actually does. Regardless, I still find the gradual wearout of an SSD to be preferable to experiencing an unpredictable head crash on a mechanical HDD.
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