Some Samsung SSDs may suffer from a buggy TRIM implementation
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A new bug may be present in the firmware of some Samsung SSDs. An engineer from search provider Algolia has written up a blog post detailing his team's saga of troubleshooting data corruption in some of their servers. Ultimately, Algolia narrowed down the problem to an apparent bug in the TRIM implementation used in Samsung drives.
This TRIM bug can cause affected drives to zero out 512-byte blocks of data in incorrect, seemingly ...