[tuzakey]

I had a bunch of Crucial SSDs die a few years back, they'd work for an hour then disappear from the bus. Reboot and they'd work again for an hour. It turned out Crucial had a small counter tracking uptime by the hour, it would increment the counter to an overflow and crash. This failure could just have easily occur on a spinning hdd.

[saidajigumi]

That this was a bug is utterly unsurprising. How it passed device & firmware QA is an utter bafflement to me, however.