On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 01:01:47 PM Yeb Havinga wrote: > Could you tell a bit more about the sudden death? Does the drive still > respond to queries for smart attributes? Just that. It's almost like somebody physically yanked them out of the machine, after months of 24x7 perfect performance. A cold reboot seems to restore order for a while, but the drives die again similarly fairly soon after a failure like this. >From what I can tell, SMART is not worth much with SSDs. -Ben -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general