Originally Posted by
devsk
This is troubling, very troubling. None of the SSDs so far have gone into read-only mode upon failure. Not even the latest incarnation as of 2013. This was touted as one of the main features of SSD.
In fact, the failure mode is hard. There is no way to get the data back and programs hang hard. Nostalgically looking, HDDs were way better in this area. I would gladly buy even a slower and slightly more expensive SSD drive which always fails into a read-only mode, leaving the data accessible.