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by seanw444 205 days ago
My experience has been the same. Hard drives fail more gracefully than SSDs.

> The vast majority of my SSD failures have been disappear from the bus; lots of people say they should fail read only, but I've not seen it. If you don't have backups, your data is all gone.

I just recovered data a couple weeks ago from my boss's SATA SSD that gave out and went read-only.