> 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 m

> 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.