I've never heard of an HDD that presented a reliable, linear prediction of their own death years in advance, which is how these SSDs behave. HDDs usually fail s

I've never heard of an HDD that presented a reliable, linear prediction of their own death years in advance, which is how these SSDs behave. HDDs usually fail suddenly and completely, following the well-known bathtub curve lifetime distribution. There was a paper from one of the big cloud shops about how SMART lacks predictive value for HDD failure. Compared to HDD, SSD failure modes are highly desirable and easy to handle.