Assuming you never have an overvoltage or heat or whatever that'll burn out the electronics, is the typical failure mode for SSDs wholesale dying like hard drives, or is it more like a death by a thousand cuts as more and more memory cells wear out? I know flash drives definitely just die, but I'd like to imagine NVMe drives are built a little less to cost in terms of controller circuitry.

(I've never had an SSD fail, eight-year-old one in my laptop still going strong and that's the only traditional SSD I have)

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@nytpu they usually have a bit of unused Flash that gets allocated when cells wear out

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