Solid-state drives have a reputation for being pretty resilient, with no moving parts, no read heads to break, and no ...

It may be hard for consumers to get, but if I'm a Dell server customer, the DELLBOSS VD is looking like a pretty good solution. That's because boot drives are all small. Companies don't store anything ...

Let's talk about SSD reliability because recent events (two complete failures in the last three weeks) has me thinking. I don't know what the statistics actually are for SSD failure, one number I have ...

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 ...

A hot potato: For a while now, solid state drives have a become the preferred option over hard disk drives due to a lack of moving components, their inherent magnetic resistance, ability to withstand ...

Backblaze compares the failure rates of SSDs and HDDs in a cloud backup environment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Conventional ...

Solid-state drives have quietly become the default storage in laptops, desktops, and consoles, yet the way they work means everyday habits can wear them down faster than most people realize. Instead ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

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 ...