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On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 10:35 -0500, John Mellor wrote:
I had a spinning disk that was corrupted every other day, and I finally threw the machine out because it was something on the motherboard.
Many years ago I had an overheating hard drive that would corrupt its data, putting a fan on it made it behave nicely. I'd be less inclined to think a SDD would overheat, but it's not impossible, especially in compact cases with bad ventilation, and in hot countries.