> whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board I don't believe it. I've had several SSDs fai

> whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board I don't believe it. I've had several SSDs fail, and the rest of the system was fine in every case. SSDs can fail for lots of reasons. My wife's laptop had an SSD fail (Hynix). Unclear why it failed but the laptop was less than 2 years old. SSDs have super complicated firmware on them and can get in a permanently bricked state after sudden loss of power (for example). I swapped her SSD out with a WD one and it's been good now for 5+ years.