I had SSD failures myself, and see them all day long as I work in service business. That's a MLC drive and is still powered on occasionally as it resides Linux boot for maintenance work for my dedicated NAS. Well my Crucial M4 turned 10 years, I had two of them and both are still alive without smart errors. Apr 16th 2023 Seagate Announces Strategic Collaboration with QNAP (4)Īdd your own comment 20 Comments on Backblaze Data Shows SSDs May In Fact be More Reliable Than HDDs #1 Denver.Apr 24th 2023 ASUSTOR Announces Flashstor 6 and Flashstor 12 Pro SSD NAS (12).Mar 7th 2023 Aftermarket PlayStation 5 M.2 SSD Cooler Taps into Airflow of the Console's Main Fan (33).Jan 27th 2023 Corsair Accidentally Reveals MP700 PCIe 5.0 SSD, Running at 10 GB/s (55).Feb 5th 2023 First Consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Gets Tested, Makes a Lot of Noise (25).Mar 3rd 2023 300 TB SSDs Could Arrive as Soon as 2026, Claims Pure Storage (33).Apr 6th 2023 Cervoz Announces High Performance, Industrial-Grade NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSDs (3).Feb 5th 2023 GIGABYTE Formally Launches AORUS Gen5 10000 Series NVMe SSDs (13).Mar 13th 2023 Apex Storage Add-In-Card Hosts 21 M.2 SSDs, up to 168 TBs of Storage (27).Apr 7th 2023 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor PC Install Size is Daunting at 155 GB (70).More data throughout a larger span of time will be welcome, but for now, it does seem that SSDs are the best way for users to keep their data available.

Of course, there's a chance that SSDs employed by Backblaze will hit a 'reliability' wall of the sort that HDDs seem to enter in year four of their operation, where failure rates increase immensely. Backblaze's data does however show that those concerns may be overrated. However, SSDs do have other points of failure, such as NAND itself (the reason there's TBW ratings) or its controller. The idea is simple: SSDs should be more reliable because there are no moving part (no platters and no read/write heads that can fail). The company's latest reports shows that SSDs have entered their fifth operating year without an escalation in failure rates: something that seems to plague HDDs pretty heavily starting from year 4. In its most recent report, the company shared data that may finally be pointing towards the general perception (and one of SSD's call to fame upon their introduction): that they boast of higher reliability and lower failure rates than HDDs. Cloud storage provider Backblaze is one of the industry players providing insightful reports into the health and reliability of the storage mediums they invest in to support their business.

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