Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?

Tom’s hardware asks “Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?” The study uses info provided by google and a lot of other large data centers on their usage of SSD. It appears that the MTBF is about the same for a spinning disk as it is for SSD. I find this odd because SSD have no moving parts but yet they fail at about the same rate as hundreds of moving parts. Given that spinning disks have been around 40+ years there has been a lot of time to perfect their construction to limit the amount of failures. SSD have the advantage of being much faster at reading and writing then spinning disks with similar MTBF. The one disadvantage of SSD is that cost per GB compared to spinning disks. Read the article to get more detail on Tom’s hardware’s investigation into SSD failure rates.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html

Tom’s hardware asks “Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?” The study uses info provided by google and a lot of other large data centers on their usage of SSD. It appears that the MTBF is about the same for a spinning disk as it is for SSD. I find this odd because SSD have no moving parts but yet they fail at about the same rate as hundreds of moving parts. Given that spinning disks have been around 40+ years there has been a lot of time to perfect their construction to limit the amount of failures. SSD have the advantage of being much faster at reading and writing then spinning disks with similar MTBF. The one disadvantage of SSD is that cost per GB compared to spinning disks. Read the article to get more detail on Tom’s hardware’s investigation into SSD failure rates.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html

Tom’s hardware asks “Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?” The study uses info provided by google and a lot of other large data centers on their usage of SSD. It appears that the MTBF is about the same for a spinning disk as it is for SSD. I find this odd because SSD have no moving parts but yet they fail at about the same rate as hundreds of moving parts. Given that spinning disks have been around 40+ years there has been a lot of time to perfect their construction to limit the amount of failures. SSD have the advantage of being much faster at reading and writing then spinning disks with similar MTBF. The one disadvantage of SSD is that cost per GB compared to spinning disks. Read the article to get more detail on Tom’s hardware’s investigation into SSD failure rates.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html