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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by majormajor on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:08PM (#9194891)
Zip drives could also go bad and screw up your data if the mechanism failed. Stupid click of death... a completely separate storage layer can't always save you.
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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by digi_owl on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:45PM (#9195043)
Well the problem there was that, iirc, they had the RW mechanics alongside the platter. Thus they got bumped around during transport.

Without that the damage would have been piecemeal as sectors went bad, rather than watching a chip go poof and lose access to everything.

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