"cache drives"
"cache drives"
Posted Mar 7, 2013 11:25 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: "cache drives" by drag
Parent article: The conclusion of the 3.9 merge window
They spontaneously die to firmware glitches sometimes. This is unusual for a hard drive (never had any of my rotating rust do this in 20+ years), but you get used to it after a while. The media isn't actually damaged, just the firmware has stopped talking to you. If removed and re-inserted they will typically wake up and suddenly they're OK again until next time.