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happyopossum on Jan 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: iMac Pro's T2 chip

What is your plan to access data on a drive if the SSD controller chip gets fried? Self encrypting disks are not new.

mschuster91 on Jan 4, 2018 [–]

> What is your plan to access data on a drive if the SSD controller chip gets fried?

I have yet to see a failed controller chip - motherboard or PSU failures due to coffee, cats, dogs or any combination of these three however I have seen multiple times in my social circle.

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