An SSD I have goes into read-only mode from time to time. After a few weeks of uptime, it will lock up the system and upon restarting everything is fine. The last time this happened it wasn't recognized by the BIOS, so I thought it was toast, but then came back to life and appears to be working as before.
SMART data appear to be fine except a few hardware errors recorded months ago that haven't increased since.
My first thought was to buy another SSD, then read that even hardware manufacturers suggest that this can happen from time to time and shouldn't be a reason for another drive.
What are your thoughts on this? My guess is that it's possibly a firmware issue.
An SSD I have goes into read-only mode from time to time. After a few weeks of uptime, it will lock up the system and upon restarting everything is fine. The last time this happened it wasn't recognized by the BIOS, so I thought it was toast, but then came back to life and appears to be working as before.
SMART data appear to be fine except a few hardware errors recorded months ago that haven't increased since.
My first thought was to buy another SSD, then read that even hardware manufacturers suggest that this can happen from time to time and shouldn't be a reason for another drive.
What are your thoughts on this? My guess is that it's possibly a firmware issue.
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