Um As your own article says this behaviour is a fundamental fact of solid state storage and it is impossible to prevent it The article notes that the Intel drive threw up a SMART warning long before it actually failed that a Kingston drive had the same self disabling behaviour probably to prevent a more damaging failure while the system is in use and that the drive is fully accessible until the next reboot meaning data from it can be recovered I would imagine slowing down writes would potentially be riskier since it would mean the drive continued operating past its limits and might fail entirely while still on but it would be necessary in some commercial applications So this is just designing things with specific markets in mind I can t really see how this is self limiting since the drive is failing at that point and as they noted it did so well after the manufacturer s stated limit for disk writes