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Wouldn't that failure mode be most equivalent to something like a bad blocks failure on a hard drive? Both can have random ~controller electronics failures, an
by snailmailstare 2y ago
Wouldn't that failure mode be most equivalent to something like a bad blocks failure on a hard drive?
Both can have random ~controller electronics failures, and I think the SSD is often designed to be impossible to recover in that situation with a replacement controller or other electronics.
- CrossVR 2y agoYou are entirely correct, however most consumers would take the loss and discard the data rather than replace a drive controller or salvage the platters. That's something they would need to hire an expensive data recovery service for. If you're a business or a professional then certainly HDDs provide you with more recovery opportunities.
- snailmailstare 2y agoIt's certainly interesting how failure modes play out for consumers given that they more often run drives to some failure.. While I wouldn't buy a HDD as a consumer, I think they are all around better from this angle. Many consumers actually did pay to have a thesis retrieved from HDDs when laptops were still using them and the partial media failure offering a data retrieval is basically the same bad option often presented on either. (The article is out of date and I would suspect SSDs have improved at a faster rate than HDDs since, but some of that improvement will have been redirected to make even cheaper consumer options.)