brent it's my understanding that HDDs are built to last and SSD's were purposely made the opposite for a short life (planned obsolescence); built-in fragility as it were. I've done a lot of independent research. Why would I want to invest in that?
No, it's not really like that. The thing is you can buy SSDs which have a warranty of x TBW meaning the cells can be written y amount of times. Tests have shown that usually they last way longer then the warranty specifies. But yes the cells die after a lot of rewrites happen. But from my experience I never had to replace an SSD because of too many writes. I have customers who have SSDs in their backup systems writing a lot of GBs every day and they didn't die so far. I had SSDs though which failed from one day to the other due to controller not working anymore.
HDDs on the other hand don't have a "fixed" number of writes possible. But on the other hand sectors sometimes die randomly. You can have good luck with a HDD and have it without any bad sectors for a very long time, but sometimes you have bad sectors quite early. I had HDDs which had bad sectors after 2 years of use already.
SSDs we know the cells endure x amounts of writes vs HDD we don't know how long a sector will be able to read and write. And people rephrase this into: SSDs are built with planned obsolescence in mind and HDDs are not. From here comes this myth I think.
From my experience, SSDs are more reliable then HDDs. For the normal consumer anyway. I don't know how many times I had to support people because windows wasn't booting anymore and the reason often being dead sectors on HDDs. Dying SSDs on the other hand I had some, but it's really rare. But that's just my experience.
Anyway, always have backups for the non replaceable stuff!
