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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Half the time a drive crashes it's not even the drive. Just this morning I woke up to no operating system on my computer, swapped SATA cable and it was fine.
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I binned (well, put aside) two SSDs because I thought they had reached the end of their useful life. They tested fine in another machine, but when they were put under load in the main server they dropped out after a few seconds of ZFS pool rebuilding. They have a very high TBW value, well beyond the warranty, so I figured the cells were done and some couldn't be written to any more.
It turns out that there was something odd happening with the SATA port or hotswap bay... after a reboot they worked fine, and are still working fine now.
I discovered this AFTER I'd already purchased replacement drives...
