My Macbook's SSD died in a blaze of reallocated sectors and write failures just last week, and that thing was just around 2 years old.
For comparison, I've only had 2 spinning hard drives fail on me (I've owned around 25), and those were >10 years old and mostly decommissioned.
It could be a statistical fluke, and the sheer speed of SSDs means that even now, a higher failure rate is acceptable, but SSDs in general don't have the longevity of older magnetic hard drives.
My Macbook's SSD lasted just six months before it failed, right before printing a boarding pass for a transatlantic flight. Afterwards it turned out Time Machine had been making corrupted backups, which wasn't fun, fortunately no user data loss, only Applications. I've learnt my lesions about SSDs: they don't give you any hints that they're about to fail, and one they do, it's game over.
My Macbook's SSD died in a blaze of reallocated sectors and write failures just last week, and that thing was just around 2 years old.
For comparison, I've only had 2 spinning hard drives fail on me (I've owned around 25), and those were >10 years old and mostly decommissioned.
It could be a statistical fluke, and the sheer speed of SSDs means that even now, a higher failure rate is acceptable, but SSDs in general don't have the longevity of older magnetic hard drives.