Which points to a firmware bug in the SSD that the use-case managed to trigger repeatedly. Firmware bugs were around in abundance when performant SSDs first ca

Which points to a firmware bug in the SSD that the use-case managed to trigger repeatedly. Firmware bugs were around in abundance when performant SSDs first came to market more than a decade ago, and while manufacturers have gotten better at testing SSD firmware, it is still inevitable that bugs will occasionally make it into shipping hardware. Moral of the story: don't trust your valued data to any one storage device. I've tried to use drives from different vendors in RAID 1 mirrors to minimize exposure to firmware bugs, and I've still seen SSDs die at unexpected times in the last few years.