2012 Mac Mini SSD Question

[bplein]

SSD often die a "sudden death" with no warning-signs.
But technology in this area is evolving so fast, it would be almost silly to base any advice on historic performance.

Simply untrue, except for maybe crummy SSDs from no-name manufacturers.

Today's consumer SSDs from the fabs (Intel, Samsung, Toshiba for example) have an annualized failure rate (AFR) of around 1/10 of 1%. Yes, 0.1%. The annualized failure rate on HDDs is from 1% on up.

So while it is true that you should back everything up, if you have seen more failures with SSDs than with HDDs in your lifetime, you've been buying the wrong SSDs.

 

[MRrainer]

I've only bought one single SSD. It hasn't failed, yet. Neither has the HDD in the iMac I bought in 2008.
But the HDD in my mothers iMac failed last year - a 2007 model, IIRC, bought from the refurb-store.
I'm actually more worried about silent bit-rot.