SSDs Are More Reliable than HDDs, according to Five Years of Backblaze Data

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Backblaze questioned whether SSDs are more reliable than hard drives last year, and now, a seemingly solid answer has come in the form of new data that the popular backup company released this week that illustrates how the technologies might fare as boot devices over time.

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Well, yeah.

The bad old days of 2009-2011 when OCZ drives were dropping like flies are behind us.

As long as you buy a decent brand SSD, and select the right write endurance for the job, of course they are more reliable. Teething issues aside, all things solid state tend to be more reliable than all things mechanical with moving parts.