Luckily, there are a few ways to monitor your SSD’s health using SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) built into storage devices and software utilities that interface with it.

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 ...

Social media has recently been lit up with claims that a recent Windows update is killing SSDs. According to Microsoft, ...

A recent study released takes a look at the reliability of solid-state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) in PCs. However, the study is not as one-sided as many PC players may expect. The report ...

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 ...

Cloud backup company Backblaze has become well-known for its hard drive and SSD failure rate reports. The interval of time it uses for its reports varies, as sometimes it's quarterly, annual, or both.

Millions of SSDs are bought every year. It's easy to be impressed by fast boots and app starts. But what about 24/7 data center operations? What are the common problems that admins should be concerned ...

The latest storage report from Backblaze, a cloud backup firm with oodles of data and stats to share, is live with some interesting comparisons between its crop of solid-state drives (SSDs) that have ...

A failure of a single NAND chip doesn't kill the entire SSD thanks to Samsung's fail-in-place technology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...