Western Digital 500GB Blue SA510 SATA Internal SSD

I would give this 0 stars if I could. I ordered two drives for my children for Christmas last year. The first drive lasted about 6 months. It bricked while my daughter was working on her summer projects for high school and she lost all of her work. It was awful...but the company sent us a new SSD drive and we moved on.The other drive was installed in my youngest daughter's computer. My youngest is a very gifted animator. This year she is taking two college level art classes and has been working on animations for her final project. We have stressed that she needed to back up in multiple places but as with any teenager she did what she was going to do. Two days ago her WD SA510 SS drive bricked. Her computer on boot could not find an OS. This of course during midterms when she had to upload parts of her animation.We tried multiple methods of installing the SSD drive in other computers, trying to power cycle the SSD with no luck. I overnighted the drive to the best rated company for recovering data from SSD's (shout out to Desert Recovery) but the news was not promising. 25% chance of recovery due to firmware error and a charge of $995 if they could recover. Her art is worth this much to me even with money tight but leaving it up to her to decide if we should try.So tonight I sit her upset and looking up this drive and this drive is KNOWN to fail. It is known to have issues. We have had 2 brand new drives BRICK in less than a year.DO NOT PURCHASE THIS DRIVE!!!