SSDs are failing just as often as hard drives

SSDs are failing just as often as hard drives

Solid-state drives (SSD) are often touted as more reliable than hard-disk drives (HDD), but new research from cloud backup and storage services provider Backblaze suggests that may not always be the case.

The company recently put both variants to the test, analyzing the performance of both SSDs and HDDs in the same environment, performing the same functions, and with the same workload – with the devices also the same age and have had to operate in a relatively same timeframe.

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