I use a Patriot Torx 128GB in my dev machine. It died completely after two weeks. The seller told me that they are very reliable and that it was just bad luck and replaced it with a new one.
It is so fast and silent that I decided to give it another try and I have been using it for three months now.
I didn't try to recover the data but I think that in case of failure or damage it is more difficult to recover the info than from traditional disks.
It would be much easier to read the NAND IC's than it is to read a magnetic disk out of a hard drive, but you'd need to figure out the block format the drive used in order to reconstruct your files.
It is so fast and silent that I decided to give it another try and I have been using it for three months now.
I didn't try to recover the data but I think that in case of failure or damage it is more difficult to recover the info than from traditional disks.