SSD health comes down to more than just one metric.

SSDs, or solid state drives, are widely used in desktops and laptops because they offer faster performance, quieter operation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...