@aeva every time I've seen an SSD fail, it's been the controller burning/dying, not the NAND, which makes the entire drive inaccessible.

@aeva if you have an SSD that has random bit flips i'd be really interested to know more lol

@cancel I've chewn through quite a few at work, but I've also found that png files occasionally get corrupted on SSDs, and as an SSD ages it gradually starts producing recoverable file system errors until it they become numerous enough that i have to take the disk offline. switching over to a different disk as the main one and keeping the old one for reference when it starts to get bad seems to be somewhat effective at slowing down the rate of failures on it

@aeva wow that’s interesting. is it always the same brand?

@cancel samsung

@cancel my laptop has a western digital "black" SSD and that has been fine so far

@cancel also it is worth noting that the majority of SSDs I've destroyed were samsung SSDs that were manufactured in 2019 or early 2020. seems like something happened around then that caused a dip in quality control

@aeva that’s weird. I have several from that time period and they’re all fine.

@aeva …I think 😬 I know some of them fail to flush to NAND if you kill the power too fast

@cancel I'm impressed they're still alive, but I really do recommend making backups of them if you haven't already

@aeva yeah they’re all backed up. Also I have done hashing to see if stuff has changed at rest and never seen anything wrong. My really old 840 (SATA) had catastrophic read errors after a few years due to a firmware bug that was eventually patched.

@aeva or was it 640? I can’t remember the generation

@aeva also I have one of those absurdly large PC cases with a lot of fans. CPU never goes above 55c. (It’s an OG Threadripper so it would shut down if it went above 65 lol)

@cancel what IT told me was we've had a lot of failures with the drives we bought around then, and it may be that their longevity sharply decreases with poor cooling, which would be consistent with the machine I've been murdering them with

@cancel it also doesn't help that I've consistently filled them up with AAA scale Unreal Engine stuff and also had a habit of putting a large pagefile on them so I can actually cook the dang game

@aeva I have page file disabled in windows lol (64g ram in that machine from 2018, 128gb in my new one from October)