So the only way an SSD dies is...

[AustinTheIntern]

Through writes?

 

I mean that's the only cause?

[Langdon]

Well if you set it on fire, it'd probably die as well.

[miyabwah]

This may just be common sense, but maybe, just maybe, they can die of age.

[Arshdeep]

You never know.

[dalekphalm]

Through writes?

 

I mean that's the only cause?

...

 

Uhm, no.

 

It is, however, the most likely way for it to die.

 

It can short out, the circuit board could die, or otherwise fail just like any other piece of electronics, but since it has no moving parts, it's just not very likely.

[Bluethulhu]

There are plenty of ways to kill a drive physically. I plugged in the SATA power cable wrong once and the drive caught on fire and is now completely broken. It was a crappy SSD, I'm not too upset.

[Giddyguy]

Well two SSD's in our house died because of random power outages (our HTPC had messed up cables). So that is another way of killing them.

[LogicDeifying]

I've seen them die of rackets

 

[airdeano]

Through writes?

 

I mean that's the only cause?

 

writes are what wears on the SSD. as the flash memory is written and re-written.

eventually it degrades (like over-volting a CPU, they tends to slowly not perform).

but other drastic means make them inoperable/dies.

[orangecat]

Flash degrades over time it can die on its own but it will most likely die form writes. If you expect the SSD to last for 100 years in storage it won't.

[needmorewood]

well u can physically break them

[AlwaysFSX]

I'm pretty sure a 9mm bullet will do some decent damage