What is the basis for this statement that "the problem is crappy SSDs"? From TFA: > The report speculates that this could be due to a malfunction in the drive

What is the basis for this statement that "the problem is crappy SSDs"? From TFA: > The report speculates that this could be due to a malfunction in the drive cache subsystem. Symptoms are said to recur predictably after a system reboot, which temporarily restores drive visibility but does not address the underlying fault. Affected users are said to be consistently experiencing failure under similar workload patterns within minutes. > Further analysis has suggested that SSDs built on Phison NAND controllers especially DRAM-less models exhibit failures at lower write volumes. Reports suggest that select enterprise-grade HDDs also display comparable symptoms under intensive writes. > The issue definitely bears high similarity to the WD SN770 host memory buffer (HMB) flaw, and in this case, too, restricting or disabling HMB yields no improvement. A suspected memory leak in Windows’ OS-buffered cache region could be the problem. Speculation almost entirely revolves around the Windows disk cache subsystem. That being said, I completely disagree with most of the replies you are getting. If Intel/AMD released a CPU that exhibited faults at high instruction throughput (making good use of all execution ports, etc.) but within the advertised power limits, I would in no way blame whatever software exhibited the problem, I would blame the chip.