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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by userbinator on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:24AM (#46042883)
LCD tvs from 2012 and 2022 just went kaput for no reason.

Most likely bad capacitors. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague may have passed, but electrolytic capacitors are still the major life-limiting component in electronics.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by londons_explore on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:29AM (#46043226)
MLCC's look ready to take over nearly all uses of electrolytics.

They still degrade with time, but in a very predictable way.

That makes it possible to build a version of your design with all capacitors '50 year aged' and check it still works.

Sadly no engineering firm I know does this, despite it being very cheap and easy to do.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by DoesntMatter22 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:06PM (#46050092)
Looks like that plague stopped in 2007? I have a 8 year old LCD that died out of nowhere as well, So I'm guessing wouldn't be affected by this. Could still be a capacitor issue though
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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by userbinator on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:25AM (#46066326)
Bad caps are still a common occurrence:

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubleshooting-hardware-devic...

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