Noob ? about SSD vs HDD

It depends on the exact system model -- if the SSD is a 2.5" drive,  you can replace it with a hard drive.  You'll take a heck of a major performance hit though -- so be prepared for a much slower system.

I may be stating the obvious here, but even if you don't have confidence in Dell SSDs, you can always buy another SSD elsewhere.  That said, there's no such thing as a "Dell SSD" anyway.  They get their SSDs from vendors like Samsung, Toshiba, and SK Hynix.  Samsung is the largest supplier of flash memory in the world and makes some of the best SSDs on the market, so it's not like Dell uses generic junk here; it sounds like you just got unlucky.

But ejn63's answer is correct.  I personally would not advise downgrading from an SSD to a spinning drive even if you find that it's possible, because you will take an absolutely massive performance hit.  For perspective, I've upgraded 5-year-old systems to an SSD and they have performed much FASTER for everyday tasks than brand new PCs that are equipped with a spinning drive.  If on the other hand your SSD is an mSATA or M.2-based card, then your only option would be another SSD that has the same type of connector -- although if it's M.2, you'd also have to be careful whether it was a SATA-based or NVMe-based SSD, since some systems with M.2 slots only support the former.

You are correct to wonder why a drive failed after only 13 months.  You would know if it had a great deal of usage or normal usage.

What indications did you get to make you realize it had failed and what system are you running?  Full model number please and no service tag.

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You could type msinfo32 onto the search box to get exact Dell model number and version of windows.

Or enter your service tag number onto the link below. After, you should be able to see your Dell model number.

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