This is becoming even more important with SSDs. I used to do a lot of data recovery, and photos were of course a very common type of data that customers wanted to recover.
If the drive was spinning, I could usually recover most of the data. Even if the drive was completely dead, there was still some chance at recovery of I had the correct logic board, and for a hefty price I could send it out to a company with more resources to get the platters spinning again.
SSDs can be much harder recover from, since you need information stored in the controller to map out the data, and many consumer level hard drives brick themselves on failure to prevent silent data corruption.
If the drive was spinning, I could usually recover most of the data. Even if the drive was completely dead, there was still some chance at recovery of I had the correct logic board, and for a hefty price I could send it out to a company with more resources to get the platters spinning again.
SSDs can be much harder recover from, since you need information stored in the controller to map out the data, and many consumer level hard drives brick themselves on failure to prevent silent data corruption.