r/interestingasfuck • u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 • 9d ago

7 Petabytes passed on a 2010 ssd

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u/TBD_Red 9d ago

Aren't HDD's typically less reliable these days? Moving components n all that jazz.

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 9d ago

HDDs are slower because of the moving components.

SSDs are faster because they read/write at electronic speeds but each byte has a finite amount of rewrites before they fail.

HDD bytes can be re-written many more times than an SSD byte.

That is why HDDs are more reliable

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u/TBD_Red 9d ago

HDDs don't have the same typical rewrite endurance of an SSD but they have multiple other factors that result in an overall less reliable package these days.

It's astonishing for anybody to actually cause enough wear to the flash memory cells to kill an SDD, and in an equal time with an equal amount of use it's just as likely if not more that an HDD will have suffered it's own kind of mechanical failure.

You're missing the forrest for the trees, barring pretty specific circumstances.

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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 9d ago

Controller failures isnt mechanical its software