Indeed, but since we know that practically no one regularly backs up their data, typically because they are too cheap to buy the extra drive, your point is meaningless.
Hardly. They lose data, and either learn or don't.
It's a fact that when SSD's go bad, there is no way you are going to recover the data yourself. And having owned computers for close to 30 years, it is also a fact that unless you drop the drive or physically damage it some other way, traditional hard drives rarely just up and die without any warning. If you use computers regularly, you are going to have a hard drive die on you at some point, unless you religiously replace all your drives every year which would be ridiculous, and still not completely fail proof.
IoW, if notebooks, feet, pets, and children didn't exist, HDDs would be
just perfect.
Every storage type has failures. They fail in different ways. But any of them can and will fail without sufficient warning. SMART warnings on boot are great, but they only sometimes catch anything. With low vibration drives using fluid bearings, bearing damage can no longer be heard or felt. With SnR decreasing as density is increasing, there's less and less each gen for the controller to be able to recover by re-reading it automatically, or using gddrescue, spinrite, etc..
Unfortunate as it may be, HDDs do up and die. One of my Samsungs from a few years ago, FI, even failed with a non-platter-related failure. Practically nothing could be gotten off it. The PC shutting down out of nowhere was the only sign, and all SMART values looked good,
even afterwards. It would just drop out after a few MBs of reading, and some of what got transferred was corrupt. Dealing with other people's computers, and businesses' computers, sudden failures just aren't that uncommon, now. They used to be, but not any more. It's also become quite common that there will be warning, but the very act of trying to recover data gets into being FUBARed. Now, HDDs
in general, seem to be more reliable than ever, if they don't die early, and are treated with care (such as not being in a notebook, for starters).
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170748-how-long-do-hard-drives-actually-live-for
Check it out. Based on their results, you could very well go through 20+ HDDs with no failures during their primary service lives, and not be an outlier (the wear they put on them in 3 years probably takes most of us 5+).
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder.pdf
It's all server drives, from several years back. Basically the same story, just that they're built a bit better than consumer drives.
Only time in my life, so far, I cancelled any order.:|
If it was at, "packaging," still, you should get an order cancel confirmation, though you might have to wait until Mon or Tue for your funds to come back.
But, don't worry over it. If you ever got to have dealings with hundreds or more drives, failures of all kinds happen. Get into thousands, and it'll be a daily thing. To protect the money you may spent, get a drive with a good warranty. To protect your data, do backups. Being for a notebook, all you'd need to do is make slip to have a good old head crash. You can even do it by too quickly catching the notebook from falling, so it happens before it had park the heads, due to your own hands. An SSD wouldn't even notice anything had happened.
So, once you get that cancellation, just go get a Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB or Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, to save that 0.5-1W. No major series of SSD is likely to brick on you. It happens, yes. But the chances are extremely good it won't.
All drives have a failure rate of 100%