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I can second that. Had a drive since about 2012 which was pretty good. Went downstairs and all it said was cannot find boot device. Zero warning signs. It died on black Friday so that was a fantastic excuse to buy a new one!
I do daily backups on my PCs with SSD drives, for this reason. In fact, I usually put in a second, standard hard drive to be the backup system. On the NUCs, I buy the extended unit which allows a Hard disk. I use the M2 SSD for booting, etc, and a real and cheap hard disk for automatic backup.
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