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 ...

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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 ...

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 have notice my small 'scratch' drive (one that has all the most accessed files and such) is getting slow to respond to file actions. So for instance, I select 10 photos and hit delete and.....wait.

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 ...

Microsoft is testing a new feature for Windows 10 that will alert you if your SSD drive is failing. Microsoft is also testing an update to Your Phone that will allow it to work with multiple devices.