Quote Originally Posted by devsk View Post
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.
Not sure who said that originally, but this one of those myths that seems to have caught on without anyone really testing it.

Quote Originally Posted by devsk View Post
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.
Hard drives can be just as temperamental ... and neither device offers very good recoverability over a major failure. It does seem that SSDs do have more catastrophic failures ... but that can be explained by just how complex the data layout is of the NAND of a SSD (due to requiring wear leveling and write amplification/performance needs)

Long story short .... have backups.