I was a little angry earlier and then hit my desk where my laptop is on it. In retrospect, I now wonder whether something like that can actually be harmful to the SSD in my laptop. Normally nothing should happen there because SSDs, unlike HDDs, have no moving parts or rotating disks, right?
Yes, such a shock doesn't really affect an ssd that much.
However, it also has plugs and soldered connections which can loosen or break.
Nothing happens there. They can take a lot more than that.
The shock is safe for you SSD.
SSDs don't care much about vibrations because they don't work mechanically like HDDs. So there's no read / write head that could crash into a disc like an HDD.
However, it also has plugs and soldered connections which can loosen or break.
What actually happens when these plugs and soldered connections loosen or break? Are the data on the SSD then faulty or is it completely broken?
There are soldering points which are only a few tenths of a millimeter apart and are under chips.
It is practically impossible to repair it without spending a lot of money on professional work that may also fail.
You can do other things like plugs again (mostly.)
There are soldering points which are only a few tenths of a millimeter apart and are under chips.
And what happens then? Would I then no longer be able to open certain files (for example music and video files) on my laptop?
I would like to know if you can clearly see if something is wrong with the SSD.
With my old HDD you couldn't see that directly. I had saved some video files on the HDD (as a data backup) and when I watched the videos, there were strange stripes in some places in the picture. I'm a little worried that something like this can happen to my SSD too and that I don't notice such errors until much too late.
These errors are never clear and can be expressed in any number of ways.
With a hard drive, the file system can also break, which probably happened with your old one.
Hardware errors that creep up are often recognized with SMART tests.
Certain systems regularly record SMART tests and then issue a warning.