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There was at least one consumer SSD with a similar failure mode, the Crucial M4 SATA drive, unless you updated the firmware it would crash after 5200 cumulative

There was at least one consumer SSD with a similar failure mode, the Crucial M4 SATA drive, unless you updated the firmware it would crash after 5200 cumulative power on hours. That drive launched in 2011 though so there probably aren't that many still in active use which still haven't reached ~7 months of uptime.

jzwinck 4y ago
Yes. This one: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1z2rm5/crucial_m4_5000_hour_bug/ https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1z2rm5/crucial_m4... That problem became known a decade ago, so it's somewhat surprising to see such a similar bug now. This new one is worse because the drive cannot be used after reaching the magic number of hours. In the Crucial M4 case the firmware could be updated even after the bug struck.