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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by DrJosiah on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:28PM (#9198911)
Every single other previous write had a way of retrying by way of spare flash cells. That last write is fundamentally different, because there are none left.
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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by jsprogrammer on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:13PM (#9200086)
So you keep some in reserve and go read-only when only x remain. Why auto-brick on next power cycle?
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