It’s a distinction without a difference. If I’m saying that (in general) SSDs can be almost as flaky as platter based drives, to make the point that it’s just bad firmware not the reliability of the read/write media that’s the issue makes little difference to someone with a bricked drive.
One thing that was brought to my attention here is the Samsung 840 non-pro uses a new type of memory that’s theoretically a lot less durable than other types, especially for lower capacities. I did some research and talked about it to a guy at MicroCenter, who looked at me funny and told me that model was just flying off the shelves, the 120GB was $30 cheaper than Intel with a special they were having. I took a pass since I like to get 6 years out of a computer build.
FWIW, Data centers are built from the ground up around the fact that drives (and servers, psus etc.) fail and they fail often. To counteract that they use RAID schemes where up to a number of drives can fail simultaneously and the data won’t be compromised. They use special drives (SAS) that are hot-swappable. In case of failure, the damaged drive is replaced with a new empty one and the RAID controller automatically rebuilts the data. All that happens with no or minimal downtime.
However catastrophic failure, eg a fire or lightning strike can happen and all the disks in the RAID get damaged at once. That’s why serious data centers do not solely rely on RAID, they keep onsite and offsite backups too.