Restore system test from an SSD

Keep in mind that when flash memory is read, you don’t get back 0 or 1. You get back (roughly) a floating point value — so you might get back 0.1, or 0.8. There’s extensive code in SSD controllers to reassemble/error correct/compensate for that, and LDPC-ish encoding schemes.

Modern controllers have a good idea how healthy the flash is. They will move data around to compensate for weakness. They’re doing far more to detect and correct errors than a file system ever will, at least at the single-device level.

It’s hard to get away from the basic question, though — when is the data going to go “poof!” and disappear? That is when your restore system will be tested.

I have my root on a RAID-0 set of 3 SSDs. I plan to move it to 6 SSDs, I just need reshuffle my disks for that.

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