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> this is the trouble with ssds, they just die

As opposed to hard drives, which are always so good about failing predictably /s

My take away was that SSDs are somewhat easy to predict failure on. I'd take predictable failure over unpredictable any day.

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You can almost always recover data from broken HDD, you will never be able to recover from SSD failure (one exception is fried fuse).

in my experience hdds have signs they're going to die soon, they go slow, click a lot, get smart errors, things get corrupt etc. where as with flash media it all seems fine, but suddenly isn't.

not that this is a rule, i've seen hdds fail instantly for no reason as well, and flash media throw a massive wobbler but still be recoverable. but in my experience this is not the normal behaviour.

but who cares as long as you have backups and a contingency plan?

You can see the sector reallocations and things happening with the SSD's as they wear.

Google's study[1] on spinning disk drives found that predicting failure from SMART data is not very accurate.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

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