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No, almost every NAND chip will have bad blocks. The initial ones are discarded during drive initialization in the factory. Then they ideally do some burn-in which may catch a few more bad blocks. Then over the life of the drive you may see thousands of defective blocks depending of capacity and number of NAND dies. However the drive can be designed and tested to tolerate to a expected defect limit with no data loss. Now if there is a bad chip, that can also be handled but the recovery process can be high stress on the SSD like in RAID recovery.


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