When SSDs first started entering the consumer market, there was a lot of fearmongering about SSD wear and failure. Hard ...

The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs ...

Cloud storage provider Backblaze is known for its quarterly hard drive reliability reports, which are based on the failure rates of the hundreds of thousands of hard drives it has spinning away in its ...

Bottom line: In addition to the quarterly reports on HDD failure rates published by Backblaze, the cloud backup and storage company has now added SSD boot drives to its data starting with Q1 2021. As ...

Conventional wisdom says solid state drives are inherently less prone to failures than mechanical hard disk drives because they lack any moving parts. But as it turns out, having spinning platters, ...

I had a Sabrent Rocket PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive fail completely. I verified that it had failed with an external drive enclosure and a second computer. I replaced it with a Samsung 980 PRO and did a fresh ...

The big picture: A key selling point of solid state drives is that they are less failure-prone than HDDs. However, data from recent years began to cast doubt on that assumption, but at least one new ...