SSD drives

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 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

... I was sitting in front of the machine when it happened.
Lights flickered, UPS made clicked (when it went on-line) and boom,
dmesg errors.

- Gilboa