You cannot account for that

If the spinner fails, it's gone

If the platter fails, it's gone

The creator of the Linux kernel blogged this week that the SSD in his workstation simply stopped working, interrupting his work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.

"The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my main workstation just died on me," Torvalds wrote. "I had pushed out most of my pulls today, so realistically I didn't lose a lot of work."

If the electricity fails, it's gone

ssds can break physically too

If you open it up and wreck it that way, yes

"oops that solder point just came loose"

While there are no moving parts in an SSD, the semiconductor components can fail. For example, a NAND die, the SSD controller, capacitors, or other passive components can -- and do -- slowly wear out or fail entirely.

"If the electricity fails, it's gone"
No, its not. I unplugged my pc many times before.

"oops because of chinkshit engineering this solder point being loose just caused the whole ssd to wipe itself"

@trackky Referring to when it's interrupted hastily during an operation

"oops the ssd just shorted out between a data pin and a power pin"

It might corrupt an entire sector

SSDs require a capacitor and power supplies, which are vulnerable to malfunctions — especially in the case of a power surge or a power failure. In fact, in the case of a power failure, SSDs have been known to corrupt existing data too, even if the drive itself hasn’t failed completely.

Those sounds like issues you'd find out about right away, though

Just like with anything else

so do hard drives @Jignx

@Jignx that's the most common failure in the good SSDs you buy here, yes, but with chink ssds you never know if the soldering's shitty or something

We're talking about the possibility of it dying after a year of data storage

i mean HDD

In which the risk is significantly lower than an HDD, for instance

Even branded ones

Hell, Seagate had a 30% failure rate with their last batch

so TLDR

First year, that is

SSDs can and will fail

30% ?! that's retarded !

but has a lower failure rate than HDDs

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/HDDFailures-BB1.jpg

My bad

It was ~43

remember when Seagate bought Maxtor and IBM Deskstar

so it's just the 3TB model, right ?

it's a sign of high quality HDDs!

Anyway, just like with most Chink shit

Don't go too cheap

I've had a Kingfast SSD for 6 years now, I think

Works fine still

ayy lmao, my seagate 3tb external hdd also suddenly failed after 2.5 years

it suddenly went POP