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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by zlynx on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:00PM (#26020378)
Not quite how it works. The SSD will never have a capacity lower than its rated capacity.

For the failures I've seen, once the SSD goes to do a write operation and there's no free blocks left, it will lock into read-only mode. And at that point it is dead. Time to get a new one.

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Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ... by dekhn on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:05PM (#26020943)
Now I'm really curious. I took the drive I swapped hundreds of terabytes to, and put it in a server (unfortunately not running a checksumming filesystem) and it ran happily for a year.
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