I remember reading early on when SSD first came out where people claimed that when SSD fails, it fails into a read-only state so at least you do not lose your data.
But apparently this is not true and it's not how SSD fail, at all.
What's crazy is I have not had a hard drive fail since we passed the triple digit mark for GB capacity. Last one was a 20GB drive (ah the old days).
That's what happens when the flash memory wears out, but really SSDs haven't been around long enough for anyone but the most intense users to wear out the flash memory of one. Instead the problems people have run into are in other parts of the SSD - mostly firmware.
I've had a few go bad in recent years, ranging from 160Gb to (most recently, unless you count a 320 that was on its way out according to the SMART readings and was pulled and replace before failing) a 500.
They've been from a range or manufacturers (and a range of ranges) with not enough of each to consider a pattern.
But apparently this is not true and it's not how SSD fail, at all.
What's crazy is I have not had a hard drive fail since we passed the triple digit mark for GB capacity. Last one was a 20GB drive (ah the old days).