I worked as a technician for a while recently. > There are stats you can get from the SSD which will indicate the end of life. I've seen too many consumer SSD

I worked as a technician for a while recently. > There are stats you can get from the SSD which will indicate the end of life. I've seen too many consumer SSDs which failed completely without warning from one day to the next with no chance of data recovery. At least if an HDD starts to fail, there are signs that you can act on (files not opening/saving, Windows behaving weird) and you usually have plenty of time before it actually happens that you can start data recovery and get a decent amount (or even most) of data out of it. And even once it fails, data recovery is possible. SSDs are just dead black boxes. It's why when I upgraded a customer to an SSD, I always put a big emphasis on making backups onto an external drive or a cloud service or, well, anything. Out of all the failed SSDs I've seen, only a single one managed to put itself into an RO mode for data to be recovered. And they often give the weirdest stats. Like, some of them will report everything is okay even though you're getting garbage or nothing out of it and can't write to it. When they work, they're great, but the failure states are just obscene.