Top Reasons Why SSDs fail

Here are some of the the top reasons for SSD (S-ATA, PCIe NVMe and m-SATA) failure which we’ve come across in the Drive Rescue lab last year:

1. _{File Translation Layer corruption}
2. _{Bad Blocks}
3. _{Gate-oxide Failure}
4. _{Failure of solder-joints on printed circuit board}
5. _{Exhausted NAND}
6. _{Failure of Power Management IC}
7. _{Read Disturb Failures}
8. _{DRAM-chip Failure}
9. _{Wear-out of System Area containing firmware}
10. _{Complete NAND Chip Failure}

The above list covers failure modes across all brands and interface types of solid state disk including Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix, WD, Toshiba, HP, Kingston and Apple models. You can find out more our SSD data recovery service here