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>What could cause an entire SSD to die at once? A component failing? Electrical components fail. Sometimes it's a manufacturing defect, sometimes a design defe
by ryanmercer 8y ago
>What could cause an entire SSD to die at once?
A component failing? Electrical components fail. Sometimes it's a manufacturing defect, sometimes a design defect, sometimes something under or over-volted and it was enough to cause damage to any given component.
Could be an IC, could be a capacitor, could be a poorly laid trace. A poorly shielded RF source could even damage any number of components.
I mean, in theory a single high charge particle from that rare cosmic ray that reaches the surface of earth running full-steam-ahead through an IC could cause just the right amount of damage to make it fail although this would be an incredibly improbable scenario.
Same goes for HDDs, televisions, your clock radio, whatever.