Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi David, On Tue, 29 May 2012, David Burgess wrote: > That said, I purchased a 128GB Petrol to upgrade a client's laptop. > Less than a week later the thing had secure-erased itself. I wasn't > too bothered by it, after all, some percentage of anything is going to > fail at some point, and I'm no

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Chris, On Tue, 29 May 2012, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > The drive wasn't responding. It's likely to be the drive itself, not > some failure on the controller or magic in the wire. SSDs are not the > ultra-reliable machines they're made out to be, in my experience. The > firmware probably crash