On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > You're forgetting that the SSD itself (this thread is about SSDs) also has > a major software component which is doing housekeeping all the time, so even > if the main CPU gets reset the SSD's controller may still happily be erasing > blocks. We're not really talking about SSDs at all any more; we're talking about real flash with real maintainable software.