SSD health comes down to more than just one metric.

Which is the more reliable storage medium, a solid state drive (SSD) or a hard disk drive (HDD)? To help answer that question, cloud backup provider Backblaze provided some interesting drive failure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without a doubt, one of the biggest technological advances seen for most PC users over the last 10-years has been the increased adoption of SSD (solid state drive) storage. Offering blisteringly fast ...

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 ...

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 ...

S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology), often written as SMART, is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and eMMC drives.