[geeks] Disks: recommendations?

[Nathan Raymond]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 3:09 PM Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:

> >> I would hope they'd instead flip from "working fine" to "read-only",
> >> but I have little faith such hopes would be realized.
> > That'd only be possible if wear was totally predictable (either
> > detectably or artificially so).
>
> I was, naovely (and apparently unrealistically), expecting that the
> firmware would be able to tell whether it's got good blocks and, when
> it runs out of good space, would know it.
>

This article provides some good information:

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/01/why-ssds-die-a-sudden-death-and-how-to-deal-with-it/

TechReport used to run SSD endurance experiments and post the results, like
this:

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/

Those tests were always a fascinating read.

- Nate