Every failure of an SSD feels like an exceptional event. Some harbinger of doom that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The prions of storage. But magnetic

Every failure of an SSD feels like an exceptional event. Some harbinger of doom that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The prions of storage. But magnetic hard drives failed all the time. I have a giant stack in my office closet just from my dev machines over the years. But it wasn't new and scary -- it was just a hard drive failing -- so it was just normal. Some had controllers fail, suddenly blinking out of existence. Another had cache memory corrupt so it just gave ridiculous readings occasionally. Others had physical failures. I don't know where to begin relative to prior flash memory (e.g. CF cards) which were absolutely notorious trash. It is worth noting that every smartphone the world over has an "SSD" in it. We spend remarkably little of our mental power concerned about the flash storage. It is the cause of a negligible amount of device failures.