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There is something strange to what the article says about modern drives dying hard and fast now. They used to just slow down a whole bunch and you knew you had
by beefnugs 2y ago
There is something strange to what the article says about modern drives dying hard and fast now. They used to just slow down a whole bunch and you knew you had time to grab info off them. (i assume the seal just broke eventually and they lost the special inert gas in there?)
But now they just die sudden, which i feel is worse. I think i have seen USB drives that die in a fashion where they become read-only which seems like a half decent idea
- r1ch 2y agoModern SSD drives typically die to controller failure, e.g. unclean power offs corrupting internal state that crashes the firmware, internal counters overflowing after time, memory errors on the internal DRAM, etc. All from to the complexity of needing the FTL to pretend it's a regular disk to the OS.