Bad blocks bad blocks what ya gonna do, what ya gonna do when they come for you. Hard drives fail hard or smooth, SSDs fail hard ! On a hard drive, we can pict

Bad blocks bad blocks what ya gonna do, what ya gonna do when they come for you. Hard drives fail hard or smooth, SSDs fail hard ! On a hard drive, we can picture how the blocks are stored (sequentially). On an SSD, there is a remapping of blocks in silicon+firmware, and this added layer adds its own bugs [0] [1]. [0] https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/01/why-ssds-die-a-sudden-death-and-how-to-deal-with-it/ https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/01/why-ssds-die-a-sudden-dea... [1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/6503/second-update-on-samsung-ssd-840840-pro-failures https://www.anandtech.com/show/6503/second-update-on-samsung... (edit : added one reference more)