SSD drives

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:27:44 +0200
Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i.
> ...
> > I have an ext4 filesystem on it.
> 
> Semi-OT: A word of friendly warning:
> I recently bricked a 120GB Intel 520 w/ the latest firmware (not sure
> if it was 400i) w/ ext4 on Fedora 17/x86_64. (Second bricked SSD in 12
> months)
> A *very* short power shortage crept under my APC UPS and bricked the
> SSD. Amazingly enough, the power shortage didn't crash the machine -
> which continued working off the main HDD software RAID array.

Then how can you be certain that the power shortage was the cause?

SteveT