Short of smashing a hard drive most of the data is recoverable, without disassembly over 90% of the time. If your info is that critical, it should be on a raid array that can recover from a bad drive. Can't say the same for an SSD when it comes to recovery, but you can raid them and get the same redundancy out of the raid array.

Using a SSD for the speed boost is nice, dealing with RMAs for failed units gets old fast, real fast. Trust me on that. Try explaining to a customer on the third or fourth failure in as many months, why it keeps going bad. You can't. Try getting paid to replace the failed units, good luck with that as well. You can't just stick the Windows DVD in the machine and install Windows on it either. You install a copy of an full install onto a SSD.

Backups should be done no matter what you use, and Uwe makes a very good point with that. Even if you have a raid array, you should back it up.

The PCIe SSDs can be murder to get to boot. Even on "approved" motherboards. Been there done that, and sent it back for credit.

The PCIe ones also have to initialize, which can make them take longer to boot than a system with a normal high speed hardrive does. Much longer... Read the forums on the PCIe SSDs and you will see what I mean.

The Nand gate will be a passing fad, and the sooner it passes the better.

Nand=planned and unavoidable failure by design.

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