> An SSD that fails is likely to go into a read-only mode that still allows you to recover your data. Anecdotally, every (n=5) SSD that has failed on me suffer

> An SSD that fails is likely to go into a read-only mode that still allows you to recover your data. Anecdotally, every (n=5) SSD that has failed on me suffered sudden* catastrophic failure that made the drive unreadable. I forget the exact models, but one was a high end consumer Samsung NVMe, two higher end Samsung SATA SSDs, and a couple of M.2 SATA SSDs in laptops. * One of the M.2 SATA SSDs was a slower failure where the kernel reported I/O errors at first, but it could still boot a few times, then it completely failed mid-backup and never mounted again.