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Some SSDs brick themselves in an abrupt shutdown.



Do you know which ones, so I can avoid them?


https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast13/fast13... "Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault" [2013]

> Even worse, two of the fifteen devices became massively corrupted, with one no longer registering on the SAS bus at all after 136 fault cycles, and another suffering one third of its blocks becoming inaccessible after merely 8 fault cycles




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