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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Predictive failures
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:07:27 -0400
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"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 4/15/2024 9:14 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>>> It always puzzled me how HAL could know that the AE-35 would fail in 
>>>> the
>>>> near future, but maybe HAL had a motive for lying.
>>>
>>> Why does your PC retry failed disk operations?
>>
>> Because the software designer didn't understand hardware.
>
> Actually, he DID understand the hardware which is why he retried
> it instead of ASSUMING every operation would proceed correctly.
>
> ....
>
> When the firmware in your SSD corrupts your data, what remedy will
> you use?

Replace drive and restore backup.
It's happened a few times, and a friend had one of those 16 GB but looks 
like 1 TB to the OS SSDs from Amazon.