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SSD vs HDD reliability

2022-09-15 01:41:58.620492+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Five years of data show that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs over the long haul

Backup and cloud storage company Backblaze has published data comparing the long-term reliability of solid-state storage drives and traditional spinning hard drives in its data center. Based on data collected since the company began using SSDs as boot drives in late 2018, Backblaze cloud storage evangelist Andy Klein published a report yesterday showing that the company's SSDs are failing at a much lower rate than its HDDs as the drives age.

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