If you buy storage media, you must plan for failure. Having worked in data centres, I've seen spinning disk drives DOA, die after a week, die in clusters (seque

If you buy storage media, you must plan for failure. Having worked in data centres, I've seen spinning disk drives DOA, die after a week, die in clusters (sequential serials, different machines), etc. SSDs aren't 100% reliable, but neither are HDs. You lost your SSD at an inopportune time, and that sucks, but it could just as easily have been a spinning disk that died, or it could have died after you finished a nightly system backup so you had no data loss at all. It's pure coincidence.