The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data

Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by coldtea on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:20AM (#46066998)

The definition of functional in the context of the discussion is that in works in the way the manufacture explicitly designed it work, in a standard industry practice fashion, not as an unforeseen bug or malfunction.

Not some abstract notion.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by lazide on Thursday November 27, 2025 @08:33AM (#46069085)

So not enumerating as a drive, and not allowing you to read even valid blocks is ‘working’?

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by coldtea on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:41PM (#46074178)

Yes, same as a facility self-destructing, if it was programmed to do so, is working as per its spec.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by lazide on Friday November 28, 2025 @07:00AM (#46077883)

And what spec requires that? I have yet to see one.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by coldtea on Friday November 28, 2025 @11:22AM (#46080009)

The manufacturers'.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by lazide on Saturday November 29, 2025 @07:51PM (#46092402)

Cite? I have yet to see that actually documented anywhere, and you keep avoiding actually referring to one either.

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