My dev machine originally came with a 250gb SSD that failed inside 6 months... a replacement (at great expense of time and effort to reinstall) failed in six days.

Bogus that ... so switched to 1tb spinning rust and that worked great for a few years ... then started having errors... machine went south for two weeks as I fiddled with EVERYTHING, concluding the HD really was krapped out.

During shopping to replace drive discovered pricing/etc had changed so much in the last three years the difference between a 2tb HD and 1tb SSD was like ... $10...

Well, change was made to SSD and machine is back to being perky keen ... However, I still remain leery of SSD so immediately cloned the new install to another HD and keep that on the shelf above my desk.

In the meantime, my 25 year old computer keeps on ticking (seeming slow as molasses in winter), but still works perfectly.

So, the query is, are any of you seeing failure rates increasing as pricing drops and media gets larger/faster?

Even with backups (I use spinning rust in that regard), having to replace failed gear after just a year, is a pain in the you know what!