On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 13:50 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:

On Mon, 08 May 2017 11:13:10 +0100
David Woodhouse [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

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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.

It's probably a good sign that this new discussion should take place in
a different thread :-).

Well, maybe. But it was a silly thread in the first place. SATA SSDs
aren't *expected* to be reliable.