Recent evidence suggests that SSD's are no more reliable than 1 TB hard drives. Given that few SSDs are 1 TB, the reliability per bit is much lower for SSDs. Why? Background A French site specializing ...

I have upgraded my Acer Aspire Z3-710 with a Solid State Disk. That means that I had to reload all the Linux distributions from scratch, and I made a really useful discovery in the Z3 BIOS setup. Read ...

Cloud storage provider Backblaze is known for its quarterly hard drive reliability reports, which are based on the failure rates of the hundreds of thousands of hard drives it has spinning away in its ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

I just bought a refurb Acer R7 from PC World - I wanted this particular one because of the way the screen hinges, its perfect for the job - but it jut has a regular HDD and it turns out that its ...

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We all know (well most of us) that datacenter giant Backblaze, from our many HDD failure rate reports. Withing the results they however have never posted the reliability on SSDs. Times are changing ...

Reliability is a key area in which SSDs are trying to stand themselves apart from traditional disks. Given that they are still in the "astronomical" category of cost per gigabyte, it's no surprise ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

I recently had two instances of near data loss – I could recover the files in the end, but it made me realize that I need to rethink my backup strategy. On my main work macbook (currently the 2-port ...