[lastdong]

Bought a nvme SSD and failed after 3 months of use. Read similar occurrences in reviews amazon. It was a Crucial P3, now reading about Sandisk.

Storage (from well known brands) used to be the most reliable component. Not sure what is going on, but feels like quality control is not as good.

[zokier]

Storage has been always a crapshoot. Deathstars, intel 8mb bug, failing barracudas, sandforce bugs, the list is endless.

[JohnBooty]

Wow... huh? I don't know about that. Been into personal computers since the 80s and it seems like storage has always failed orders of magnitude more often than anything else.

[bombcar]

Storage failures are memorable everything else is easily replaced.

[JohnBooty]

What other major PC component actually fails on a regular basis?

Batteries and fans, I guess.

Everything else doesn't really fail unless the user does something silly (toasting it via overclocking/overvolting) or a capacitor leaks.

Spinning-rust HDDs used to fail a lot because they were well, moving parts with incredibly small tolerances and computers get banged around sometimes.

It's kind of funny that SSDs carried on the tradition of failure despite not having moving parts.

[ilyt]

We even seen Intel enterprise SSDs die like month after warranty, with 98% life left...