The amount of data we can store on computers has been increasing ever since, well, computers were invented. However, there comes a point where you can have too much information, and a PC can't ...

SSDs can have bad blocks and other random bad bits (controller and cache?), not that different from a platter drive there I guess, but there's no driver head crashing/physical stuff to worry about. I ...

Between two storage solutions, generally speaking, SSDs are more reliable than HDDs. However, there are a variety of factors ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has warned that certain SSD drives could fail catastrophically if buyers don't take action soon. Due to a firmware bug, the products in question will be bricked ...

Samsung Electronics has launched new SSDs with fail-proof technology that will allow them to operate even if the NAND chips within them fail. The South Korean tech giant said its 30.72TB PCI Express ...