It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ki-rin on 2024-01-23 13:34:03+00:00.

I always read about how SSDs are much more reliable and less probs to failure than traditional hard drives, and theoretically that makes sense. But what has your personal experiences been?

Because for me, I've rarely had a mechanical drive fail. Maybe twice over the last 20 years.

But I've had 3 SSDs either fail or degrade severely over the last 2 years. Granted, they are from less reputable brands (2x suneast, 1x adata), but even my Samsung has slowly degraded to about 70% health over a couple of years.

Am I unlucky, or are SSDs not really as reliable as they've been made out to be?