Here's something a Solid State Drive can do that I've never seen a normal drive do: when shut down due to a system crash, silently sprinkle an untold number of read errors all over the file system.

And you won't know about it until you notice that a some apps have started failing in strange ways, that random files have become corrupt, that Visual Studio will start, but it won't compile anything because some DLL somewhere is broken.

And then you look in the system events logs and notice the hundreds of read errors.

How can you tell which apps were affected without running them and testing every bit of functionality? You can't! How do you know if parts of Windows itself were affected? You can't!

This is an exciting time to own a PC.