On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:53 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Had the WD SSD just die in one of my 5 Home Fedora 37
> machines. Reply from WD is just it is out of warranty.
>
> Wondering if others are seeing this or it is just one bad drive.
>

According to Backblaze, almost 1% of SSD drives fail annually.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/new-data-tracks-failure-rates-of-13-ssd-models-going-back-up-to-4-years/

In their numbers, WD fares ok; they aren't worse than Seagate, Micron,
Dell, Crucial.

I have to admit, those numbers surprised me. They're not a lot better than
failure rates for HDs.
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