It highly depends on how many time the drive was powered on, how many spin-ups i...

markus_zhang · on July 16, 2021

Thanks, makes sense. I think for SSD it's the number of writes right?

toast0 · on July 16, 2021

SSDs can (and do) fail before their write endurance levels.

IMHO, it's probably firmware bugs, but it's hard to tell what happened when the SSD is in a datacenter and it just disappears off the data bus. Could easily be component failure, poor assembly leading to solder failure, tin whiskers, etc.