Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months

Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by ars on Thursday March 12, 2015 @05:14PM (#9193972)

A bricked device still has the data on it. It's fake security.

And you could allow secure erase while still prohibiting normal writes. The cells aren't actually gone or unusable after all, just unreliable. A secure erase would work fine on them.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by raverbashing on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:14AM (#9196098)

"A bricked device still has the data on it. It's fake security"

No, because they do this http://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hardw...

Erase the AES key -> data is gone

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by thrownaway2424 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:16PM (#9195148)

And, it would be extremely easy to implement, because you only have to assert erase on every page in the device, which can be done in parallel.

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