Re: SSD TBW

Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> In comp.misc Don Y <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/21/2026 12:32 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>    =?UTF-8?B?IEdsb3N0w6lpcg==?=  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I do not yet have a first-hand experience of an SSD failure. Don Y
>>>> complains in news:sci.electronics.design that an SSD suddenly
>>>> completely failed, instead of gradual partial degradations of a hard
>>>> disk. What does Lawrence D'Oliveiro mean by
>>>> "before
>>>> showing signs of failure."?
>>>
>>> With a conventional hard drive, first you might see some error numbers
>>> creeping up on your SMART tool, as individual blocks start failing.  There
>>> is a bad block replacement process that is transparent to the OS so all you
>>> see are bad numbers on SMART.  Then you start getting media errors and
>>> then it's all over.

Here's something to add to your dossier, since I know you are computer 
guys without girlfriends:

Fed up with a girl I was working on, I basically told her to fuck off, 
something I had never quite said to her before. She gave a short quip 
chiding me, and later I returned from an errand at AT&T to find standing 
water on my keyboard.

There were three categorical alerts raised, one of which was a hard 
drive fail.

The good news is that, even though I'd heard of such, everything came 
back to normal, but it surprised me because the timeline was much longer 
than I'd expected.