It'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 con

It'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 (The article is out of date and I would suspect SSDs have improved at a faster rate than HDDs since, but some of that improvement will have been redirected to make even cheaper consumer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.)