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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:34:37
Message-Id: 55B8F281.4000407@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT) by Daniel Frey
1 Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey:
2 > On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >> you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by
4 >> just becoming completely unacessible.
5 >>
6 >> dmesg errors?
7 > Filled with /dev/sda errors when it "failed".
8
9 oh the joy.
10
11 >
12 >> are you using ecc ram?
13 > Nope.
14 >
15 >> if not - maybe, just maybe it is your ram at fault. The stuff the kernel
16 >> sends and the stuff that end on the ssd might not be identical.
17 >>
18 > Ran memtest overnight on it, no errors.
19 >
20 > Dan
21 >
22 >
23 >
24
25 I had ram that passed memtest - and zfs detected errors. Went ecc ram,
26 no more errors.
27
28 With ram hammer as latest attack vector, ecc is even more worth its money.

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