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by otras 637 days ago
Reminds me of the HN outage where two SSDs both failed after 40k hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243
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That's a firmware bug, not wear.
Yes and risk management dictates diversification to mitigate this kind of risk as well.
For one reason or another, the drives tended to age out at the same time. Firmware bugs are just hardware failures for solid state devices.
bug or feature?