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Intel X25-M 80GB SSD - expiration time: 1 year, 11 months, 1 week #ssd #hardware

🕒︎ - 2011-06-11

This is what a dead SSD looks like:

[    1.126422] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f280 irq 22
[   11.140107] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   21.152131] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   31.724130] ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   56.196130] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   56.196173] ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[   61.384136] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   61.384177] ata4: reset failed, giving up
[   75.980135] ata4: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x800 action 0x6 frozen
[   75.980149] ata4: SError: { HostInt }
[   75.980163] ata4: hard resetting link
[   86.024197] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   86.024210] ata4: hard resetting link
[   96.040201] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   96.040214] ata4: hard resetting link
[  106.612186] ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[  131.092193] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[  131.092207] ata4: hard resetting link
[  136.280203] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready)
[  136.280213] ata4: reset failed, giving up
[  136.280227] ata4: EH complete

Alternative view:
SSD opened

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