Re: This will kill X blah blah blah!
I can't pop open an hard drive and read the bit stream using a jtag probe. I can with an SSD.
It isn't the controllers that fail, its the database the controller keeps about how it mapped the blocks that fails assuming the controller hasn't decided to EOL the drive. If a file system uses lots of extra data to checksum that, the blocks can be recovered and reassembled. There are off the shelf programs that can recover amazing amounts of data from scrambled blocks of even common file systems so I expect that it is easier to recover some data from a broken SSD than a broken spinning disk.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
