On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:27:44 +0200 > Gilboa Davara <gilb...@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 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
