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SSDs tend to have highly correlated failure modes because you either run into a bug in the firmware which is the same on every SSD or you have the same wear on every SSD, which locks both into read-only mode within a short period of time. You might argue that read-only is not a failure, but read-only means downtime and replacing hardware.


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