All SSDs have SMART rapports that show the percentage of terabytes written. All of them have a max amount of tbw before they enter read only mode so your data is mostly safe.
Remember the freezer trick? Dead drive? Freeze it for 6 hours inside a zip bag and then, if lucky, you will get one final spin to copy your Docs folder.
Hopefully your shit is backed up
It was making weird noises for a long time, so I had enough time to move the data off it.
Thats what scares me about SSDs. No moving parts to indicate imminent failure
Well, you should be replicating /backing up data regularly anyway.
All data on my mobile devices is synced to a server, which replicates locally to 2 other storage devices, and is backed up to a cloud storage.
I largely use Syncthing for mobile devices (even Windows laptops), so I’m always using a single tool/process (less confusion this way).
All SSDs have SMART rapports that show the percentage of terabytes written. All of them have a max amount of tbw before they enter read only mode so your data is mostly safe.
Remember the freezer trick? Dead drive? Freeze it for 6 hours inside a zip bag and then, if lucky, you will get one final spin to copy your Docs folder.
Worked for me a couple of times.