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Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40k Hours (2020)

11 pointsby 4y agobleepingcomputer.com
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4y agoHN ↗

Total engineering fail: they did the math wrong - it was supposed to be 6 months after the warranty expired...

4y agoHN ↗

I still have the first SSD I ever bought years and years ago. It's still fine. Zero issues. Never had an SSD die.

Spinning rust? Last one I bought I have connected to my desktop mounted in read only mode because it's severely fucked up.