The worst part is that it's so hard to find a vendor with SSD firmware that isn't terrible. So many buy the cheapest controller chip and then ghost you when the drive crashes and bricks itself.
Many many drives, even from big companies like HP, came with the damn Sandforce controller that tends to brick itself if your computer ever goes to sleep. I know organizations that ended up replacing entire swaths of drives because they were dying so often. It was enough of a problem that some people went to extreme (legally dubious) lengths to try to recover the drives. I mean just look at the procedure:
Many many drives, even from big companies like HP, came with the damn Sandforce controller that tends to brick itself if your computer ever goes to sleep. I know organizations that ended up replacing entire swaths of drives because they were dying so often. It was enough of a problem that some people went to extreme (legally dubious) lengths to try to recover the drives. I mean just look at the procedure:
https://computerlounge.it/how-to-unbrick-sandforce-ssd/
Of course Sandforce was completely unhelpful in trying to fix the problem.