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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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Likely the drive itself (or rather the controller on the drive), but it might be your motherboard or chipset drivers.

Is there newer firmware available for that SSD?

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The SSD is a few years old and and I don't think there has been any newer firmware. But I wonder whether not running TRIM taxes the controller.

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Time for a new drive. Solid state memory is not up to the longevity of mechanical drives yet. I have perfectly healthy HDDs that are 10 and 12 years old. A solid state drive is junk after five years of regular use.

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Why did you disable TRIM anyway?

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It was supposed to be this way by default for FDE.