Intermediate storage some RAID with HDD. For archival – Verbatim M-DISC.

Same thing here, with 1TB WD SSD for Gaming and for Video Editing, but the drive isnt dead yet, and its just 2 years old, the SSD slows down and have unusual 100% active time with spiking or little to no activity on Task Manager, then my PC decided to BSOD and that UEFI BIOS temporarily stops recognizing my SSD.

That sounds very close to the study my brother ran at the university he works at. As chief IT manager he was in charge of picking parts for their new computer lab and they ran a 12 month study and found that Samsung drives where by far the most reliable followed by Sandisk Ultra 3D (not to be confused with the regular Sandisk SSDs), and yes, drives from Kingston, OCZ, Adata, Crucial, and others randomly dropped dead. Good idea to post specifics, i would have included the model numbers to try and build a database of sorts with others on this thread.

A UPS is the least appreciated part of a computer setup. I’ve used one since the mid-2000’s and it’s saved me a lot of heartache over both damaged hardware from surges and lost data from losing power in the middle of something important.
i installed my first SSD (a Mushkin 124GB) in a desktop I built in 2012. It’s still booting it up…played some Fallout 4 last night. The SMART data gave me a high 90th percentile the last time I ran it a month or so ago. I’ve wanted to determine the type of NAND it has, but I only ever think of that when I’m nowhere around it.
I have SSD’s in a Windows 10 laptop and three Linux laptops, and I’ve never had a failure. Now that I’m thinking about it, I only have one mechanical drive in service anymore, and it’s a 1TB Western Digital in that 2012 desktop.
Of course, I have a stack of them that I’ve pulled out of all these laptops, plus about 8 WD Blue drives I salvaged from retired desktops at my job. Thinking of a home cloud RAID setup on the cheap… :D

I hope that in the last three years you were able to get past your ex.

SSDs are NAND Gate technology memory device that is electric current passed through a chip it saves datas. It is the same technology used in Flashdrives, Memorycards and Cellphones. It is same as flashdrive dies unable to recover files from it. In this case Harddisk is best on keeping files safe even if harddisk dies it is easy to recover files from crashed hard drive than SSD Coz the harddrive id made up of mechanical drive it stores datas in Magnetic platter that will longlast than SSD. The Positive side of SSD is that it has more performance than harddrive, no clicking noise like harddrive. The negative part of SSD is only the life span once the chip dies not easy to recover it is same as flashdrive dies unable to recover.