“According to Häfele, the components used in these SSDs are too big for the circuit board, causing weak connections (i.e., high impendence and high temperatures) and making them prone to breaking.”
Attingo sees a dead SanDisk Extreme Pro at least once a week. Its boss says the parts are too big for the board and the solder forms bubbles, so no firmware update fixes it. Newer revisions add epoxy to hold the oversized components down, and they still fail. Western Digital patched the hardware quietly and kept selling the drives. The customers pay for the data recovery.