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As I recall, there are at least three problems here: 1. Basically no software is prepared to be "graceful" about their storage suddenly going read-only, especi
by wtallis 7y ago
As I recall, there are at least three problems here:
1. Basically no software is prepared to be "graceful" about their storage suddenly going read-only, especially when the OS is trying to run off that drive.
2. Intel drives at end of life go read-only until the next power cycle, whereupon they turn into bricks.
3. The threshold at which Intel drives go read-only is when the warrantied write endurance runs out, not when the actual error rate becomes problematic. This makes sense if the drive is trying to ensure the flash is still in good enough condition to have long data retention, so that you can reliably and easily recover data from the drive. But (2) already rules that out.
- StavrosK 7y ago> Intel drives at end of life go read-only until the next power cycle, whereupon they turn into bricks. That's inconvenient, given that the first instinct of many people at the first sign of read trouble is to power-cycle the drive. Maybe not in enterprise scenarios, but certainly in consumer ones.