"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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alan_m wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

I'm not aware of any other drive that comes with a 10 year warranty.

Shouldn't the warranty just be treated as marketing hype with the
manufacturers knowing that the majority of users will move onto another
better computer/disk well within that timespan. Furthermore a 10 year
warranty does not mean that the device will last that long.

Of course a warranty is no substitute for backups.

SSDs have a wear-rate and drive manufacturers do seem to assign warranties
to devices in relation to their lifespan (note reducing warranty length on
SATA drives in recent years).

That last is due to a quite different cause, not because they dont last as
long.