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Super interesting. Do you have any examples of drives that have the proper firmware in your experience? Sounds much better to own than something that suddenly f
by capableweb 6y ago
Super interesting. Do you have any examples of drives that have the proper firmware in your experience? Sounds much better to own than something that suddenly fails.
- londons_explore 6y agoSadly not. Black-box testing an SSD for these kind of features takes months and hundreds of drives, and manufacturers will never talk about the inner workings of their firmware. Many big SSD users develop their own SSD hardware and firmware partly for this reason. SSD firmware is also a spectrum between "correct" and "performance", and I know of no SSD's that for example maintain all of the acknowledged data on a power failure. Sure many SSD's may typically do that, but that isn't a guarantee when the power fails in worst-case conditions. Old Apple SSD's for example have a special extra wire on the connector specifically for "impending power failure" to help them do that. PC SSD's don't even have a standard message to mean "power failure expected in 250 milliseconds".