You should keep in mind that the data presented is for fairly heavy use, more than typical home use. For an average user, it is estimated that the amount of reading and writing to an SSD is 30-60 GB/day. This figure encompasses everything from browsing to gaming, which are not very demanding processes in this regard.
Busting the Myth of SSD Failures
First of all, it is necessary to specify the use that Blackblaze makes of SSDs. These are mainly used for process of reading and writing log files, operating system installation and temporary files. Note that log files are the processes that use these storage units the most.
We must indicate that the company used SSD since 2018, being recorded units of that era. Great most of these units SATA wiresAdditionally, there are only three M.2 drives (the WD Blue SA510). Note that on the 65% units are 250 GB or lesson the 34% have a capacity 500 GB there solo have three 2TB drives.
Another fact that we have to consider is that most of these SSDs are commercial units, come on, you can buy them from Amazon. The only ones professional units Those are the Dell BOSS VS. It also highlights that 58% these are units Seagate BarraCuda 120 of different capacities.
Blackblaze points out that in 2020, Less than 1% of the total units presented some sort of glitch. Specifically, only 25 drives out of over 2,900 SSDs failed. We see that in general, the devices they use are commercial and have no defects.
There is a particularly interesting information that the company has given. The units they use operate on a temperature difference half between 34.4 ºC and 35.4 ºC. Note that most operate between 25 ºC and 42 ºC maximum. Some units have also detected very punctual peaks up to 61 ºC.
Beware of wrong conclusions
This is interesting data that could hardly be obtained otherwise, since it is a “real” use of the units and not a simulation of use. Obviously, at home you will not have the load that these devices can support, not even by chance. What we need to clarify is that SSDs are just as good as HDDs, with similar reliability.
For me, one of the most interesting data is the temperature. We see how more or less the operation is established in a not exaggerated range of temperatures. The range of around 20 ºC can be considered normal, and occasional temperature spikes are normal.
What I find most interesting is that if they work in a temperature range within the optimum, we shouldn’t have any problems. It’s not that they will last longer if operated below 40 ºC, it’s impossible to know because many factors come into play. What it raises is that we can improve its durability by operating in an optimal thermal range.
