@RustyCrab @skylar There is no guarantee of a warning when a SSD is about to fail.

HDDs generally do start getting many reallocated sectors, very slow r/w pre-failure and S.M.A.R.T errors, but in some cases the proprietary software just fails and the HDD is dead, or the hardware can decide to just head crash.

SDDs can give a warning when they're about to fail (they're meant to just write protect themselves on flash write exhaustion, allowing you to recover the data), but the proprietary software can just fail with no warning.


We need free software on HDDs and SDDs, so it's feasible to just reflash the software on the controller if the storage corrupts itself.