SSDs are much more reliable than hard drives

Many years ago when HDD dominated the computer industry with an iron fist, users generally didn’t care about read speeds or availability on their board PCIe compatible for NVMe. They were simple, but also slower. SSD He came to change this situation.

Based on everything we’ve learned over the past decade, SSDs are much faster, more reliable, and more durable than older hard drives. In favor of traditional hard drives: they are much cheaper compared to the price per GB.

Storage service provider Backblaze released its latest report today, and its findings should be kept in mind if you’re looking to buy a new storage module (preferably NVMe, which is the fastest on the market).

report related to failure rate hard disk drives (HDD) and its comparison with solid state drives (SSD) which are much faster.

Most people who understand the basics of these two types of storage know that hard drives are mechanical storage media that uses a rotating platter to read data.

On the other hand, SSDs are based on NAND flash and have no moving parts inside. Therefore, common sense tells us that HDDs are less reliable than SSDs, i.e. HDDs are more likely to fail than SSDs.

This is how the failure rate of hard drives and solid state drives was tested

Backblaze’s tests show that this view is actually true, as their comparison of the failure rates of both types of storage showed that SSDs are much more reliable overall.

The firm explained the methodology by which the comparisons were made:

“All SSDs and HDDs we report are boot drives. They perform the same functions: run storage servers, write log files, act as temporary storage… In other words, they perform the same tasks.“, they explain.

As you can see above, the failure rate of old mechanical drives skyrockets as they age. Meanwhile, the number of SSD failures seems stabilize around four or five years of use.