I've worked with plenty of HDDs and SSDs (software engineer for enterprise storage products, working on the hw-sw integration), HDDs and SSDs have pretty rapid

I've worked with plenty of HDDs and SSDs (software engineer for enterprise storage products, working on the hw-sw integration), HDDs and SSDs have pretty rapid failures. Sometimes you get several days or weeks of low-frequency errors or high latencies but more often than not you'll get an almost one-instant failure. Most of the HDDs I worked with were 7200RPM enterprise drives (SATA & SAS) and the SSDs were enterprise quality too (SAS & NVMe).