https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssds-fail-almost-as-often-as-hard-drives-backblaze https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssds-fail-almost-as-often-... > After ta

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssds-fail-almost-as-often-as-hard-drives-backblaze https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssds-fail-almost-as-often-... > After taking into account drive age and equalizing it between SSDs and HDDs, we can see that the results have changed significantly. SSDs aren't that far behind hard drives in failure rate, with a 1.05% annualized failure rate compared to 1.38%. But it hardly matters. If the failure rate is 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 - either way there are a staggering amount of M1 macs that will be trashed every year because of failed SSDs. You are right, the standard on-board connectors are extra material. It'd be a fun engineering challenge to reduce the non-recyclable material cost of standard connectors.