Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon May 08 2017 - 06:13:20 EST


On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> You're forgetting that the SSD itself (this thread is about SSDs) also has
> a major software component which is doing housekeeping all the time, so even
> if the main CPU gets reset the SSD's controller may still happily be erasing
> blocks.

We're not really talking about SSDs at all any more; we're talking
about real flash with real maintainable software.

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