

Dramatically, the SSDs showed a 0.00% failure rate in their first year of service compared to. After four years of aggregated data, the SSDs from a variety of manufacturers are showing a failure rate of 1.05%, well below the 1.83% failure rate of hard drives over the previous four-year period. This includes serving as boot drives, primary storage, temporary SMART storage, et cetera. If the data can be replicated, it means that one of the last advantages (or perceived advantages) of the hard drive is disappearing.īackblaze tested its SSDs performing the same tasks it previously assigned to hard drives after a full company transition in 2018. According to the latest Drive Stats report from online backup service Backblaze, its SSDs are failing at a consistently lower rate than old-fashioned hard drives. But that might not be the case now, if it ever was. As speedy solid-state drives began to rise as a realistic alternative to the decades-old hard drive for consumers, early adopters worried that their new SSDs would fail faster and more frequently.
