Originally Posted by
Christopher
Look, it's pretty much impossible to get this to happen naturally. I made some changes to the amount of free space after the second day, as the drive had become quite slow. I bumped it back up where it was, and it was fine for another 8 days or so... until I reduced the amount of free space left again. I let it run longer to see how bad performance would get, and this time secure erasing it wouldn't even fix it, much less the more extreme methods I tried.
I can put the drive into another system, and it does the same thing in every system I've tried, and with different drivers as well.
If this was a widespread problem, Dell, Lenovo, and Samsung would have stumbled upon it already.