On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 6:11 PM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 16:32, Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
Well I guess I can try reseating it, good idea. Unfortunately this server is remote from me, so might as well collect ideas before driving over.
Have you seen: Fix your dead SSD with the power cycle method - The Silicon Underground (dfarq.homeip.net
I wonder if some workloads designed for rotating disks end up rewriting the same storage location resulting in early death of SSD's
The ssd firmware plays games to make wear leveling work. Because of that it is very unlikely that 2 blocks written to the same "block" at the fs level are going to be written to the same block on the ssd.
Make sure the SSD has some cache memory, I bought (and since returned) a crucial ssd that did not have ram/cache. I killed 2 of the (orig and replacement) in under 2 weeks, before I returned it. I killed them such that they would no longer even answer on the sata bus. However the firmware for these works, they seem to be a lot less reliable. And there are a lot of similar reviews that under some set of conditions these devices are unreliable. Whatever algorithm choices that a few dollars cheaper/no cache ram causes seems to be a problem.
I have also been known to carefully and lightly use a pencil eraser on the contacts to clean off anything that could cause it to not have a good contact, and then wipe it with alcohol.