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One potential cause is poorly constructed drive firmware which fails to account for a minor failure of some kind and crashes. If that unaccounted minor failure
by jclulow 8y ago
One potential cause is poorly constructed drive firmware which fails to account for a minor failure of some kind and crashes. If that unaccounted minor failure is persistent, the firmware may crash constantly and then you'd be unable to access even theoretically good parts of the drive.
Firmware -- undebuggable, unobservable, unfixable software, jammed into your devices -- is the enemy.
- jug 8y agoSounds like there is a business opportunist here for open firmware or even one running on the CPU especially for the enterprise? But maybe they won’t bother either despite valuable data and uptime, and just rather throw more redundant SSD’s at the problem.
- someguydave 8y agoYou would need to convince the very small number of Flash memory fabricators to release their detailed specifications and known product weaknesses.