Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
by solardev on Monday July 11, 2022 @01:50AM
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Back then people still used Slashdot:
Wondering if it's real... https://m.slashdot.org/story/20680
Years later, it's a widespread phenomenon: https://m.slashdot.org/story/43312
It was affectionately called the "click of death".
Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
by thrwyoilarticle on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:31AM
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>But don't we all love them now because they support linux?
Ah, inventing an opinion to get angry about: some things never change.
Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
by xyzzy_plugh on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:56PM
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Why would there be submissions? These drives predate HN.
Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
by dredmorbius on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:18AM
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HN occasionally discusses issues pre-dating itself.
Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
by dredmorbius on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:30AM
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... and the lifetime (deathtime?) award for the Deathstar only predated HN by a few months:
May 26, 2006: https://www.pcworld.com/article/535838/worst_products_ever.h...
October 9, 2006: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
Memory would still have been reasonably green.
Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
by vidarh on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:31AM
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It does however come up in comments regularly. I know I've brought it up more than once, because I had a week long ordeal replacing all the drives in an array as they died one by one back in the day.
IBM Deskstar: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
IBM Deathstar: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...