Re: How to add new hard drive to increase disks pace in bsfs?

On Sun, 19 Jul 2026, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> All SSDs have a built-in suicide clock. When this one goes, not only will it
> go up in smoke, but the random half of your data that remains on the other,
> working drive, will also be pretty much lost.

I hope this is a silly question.
How literal is that?
Do SSDs really have an I'm-dead bit that once flipped,
by time or some other event, causes them to quit even trying?

I'm aware of flash wear and wear-leveling.

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Michael   [email protected]
"SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young
goat to your SCSI chain now and then."   --   John Woods
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