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I've been using old "real" rotating disks as well as SSDs now for
decades, both at home and in projects I used to be responsible for
in industry. A slightly related issue: For a couple of decades now,
drives have relied on firmware stored in rewriteable PROMs on the
disk controller. But rewriteable carries the risk that the wrong guy
rewrites it... I had some Seagate drives ruined when a virus rewrote
that microcode. I know very little about SSD technology but have no
reason to doubt it has the same vulnerability.<br>
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So I just want to ask what if any risks there are other than just
semi-random failure of SSDs. There is always the possibility that a
nasty cosmic ray breaks into your house and changes some crucial
bits. And chips, including the RAM chips making up an SSD, can be
defective or just get old, like chips anywhere. But are there
additional ways SSDs can die? I may need something else to worry
about these days...<br>
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Bob Wilson<br>
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