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by miahi 4691 days ago
The only thing you have to know about reliability is "always have backups". I bought 5 SSDs and used them as OS drives on laptops and desktops. No SSD actually failed, but they had "glitches" - 3 of them, of different brands and on different PCs and OSes, lost data for no apparent reason - nothing in the SMART logs and tests. Twice the OS had to be restored from backups. The good news is that after the restore (on the same device) everything was fine and I continued using them.