Re: SSD Analyzer Tool

Here's what I don't understand. Rob says he replaced a drive because it reported FAILED. I didn't get the sense that there were any warnings, it just fell over. Now, if the whole idea on these drives is that they have a bunch of extra space that they use to replace failed blocks, wouldn't it make sense that:

A. You would have a way to see the amount of "extra" space remaining on a drive.

B. The drive would warn you as it was losing it's extra space. Say send a message to the system operator when a drive uses 50% of it's spare storage, then another at 75%, 90% and every 1% after that.

I'm not a hardware guy, but that would make sense, wouldn't it?

Joe

Joe,

I know there's been A LOT of people leaving the midrange ranks over the
years, but my more than ample gutt tells me that the problems of the 9335(?)
drives failure rates is still a stink that IBM works hard to avoid in any
"disk" technology it releases...

DR2