Cloud storage company Backblaze owns Announce (opens in a new tab) Its latest round of data monitoring SSD Reliable, they provide a great reading experience for many users.
To store customers’ data, the company still uses high-capacity HDDs, but since late 2018 it has been using SSDs associated with higher speeds as boot drives, which means we now have a few years of data to understand where they are. How does it perform in practical applications. Life.
As of December 31, 2022, Backblaze had 2,906 SSDs spread across 13 different models, most of which, it says, are considered consumer-grade, so they’re equally suitable for your own PC.
Are SSDs reliable?
As part of its testing, Backblaze compared SSDs from Crucial, Dell, Micron, Seagate and WDC in capacities ranging from 240GB to 2,000GB, but it’s worth noting that most of its data was concentrated on Seagate drives, almost a third Two (63%) the number of SSDs, or more than half (56%) the total capacity.
Each drive was given an Annual Failure Rate (AFR) percentage, representing its probability of failure over a full year of use. The data shows that the current batch of SSDs used by Backblaze had an average AFR of 0.98%, with a total of 25 drive failures recorded over a total of 934,441 days.
In its report, it’s clear that Backblaze is taking a cautious approach to its numbers. While seven of the 13 drive types were failure-free, six had fewer than 10,000 days of operation, which was said to not provide enough data to make reliable predictions.
Even so, this is down from the 2021 AFR of 1.05%.
Some temperature-related guidance can also be extracted from the research, with SSDs running hotter on average during the warmer summer months, highlighting the need for proper care and attention. A further spike in the run-up to Christmas also contributed to higher temperatures, but the cause was unclear.
The 2022 SSD AFR is significantly lower than the 1.37% rate recorded in 2022, totaling 78 million days and 230,000 drives, hard disk. With this in mind, and with SSD prices on a downward trend, SSD adoption may soon rise to new heights.
