> If a drive is failing, it will usually collapse into read only mode and let you know that it is failing, giving you ample time to recover data. Do you have a

> If a drive is failing, it will usually collapse into read only mode and let you know that it is failing, giving you ample time to recover data. Do you have any real world references of this kind of fail behavior occurring? I only have experience with mechanical HDD failure (RAID drives gone bad -> degraded until rebuild; non-RAID drives getting massive bad sectors; non-RAID drives click -> dead). I've read about drives supposedly being able to enter a "nice" readonly mode, but that was a couple years or more ago, about SSDs. More recently, I've only read about drives either entering readonly mode until power cycle, then completely inaccessible; or simply lockup and completely inaccessible.