Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
Yeah, I don't think the controller is failed; the firmware just got lost somewhere on the way. You can have the fastest drive in the world, but if the FW is junk, so is the whole drive.

Oh and SF's RAISE is supposed to prevent failure from one NAND device, so if that is killing SFs, then it lends more credence to my "RAISE sucks" theory.
No, RAISE cannot protect against an entire NAND device breaking, only from an individual NAND chip. (each device can have multiple NAND chips stacked together) There isn't enough spare space for an entire NAND device to die