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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by londons_explore on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:57AM (#46047830)
The mechanism is usually that the SSD controller requires that some work be done before your read - for example rewriting some access tables to record 'hot' data.

That work can't be done because there is no free blocks. However, no space can be freed up because every spare writable block is bad or is in some other unusable state.

The drive is therefore dead - it will enumerate, but neither read nor write anything.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by ThePowerOfFuet on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @02:49AM (#46055147)
I don't think this is correct; it could read the flash block containing the [part of the] table in question, update it in memory, erase that block, then rewrite it into the same block.
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